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Bad Trade
“Bad competitiveness” results in weakening demand, which either reduces global production or requires surging debt to maintain demand and production at its existing level. Perhaps that rings a bell, because it is the world we live in.
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The Workforce Training Grant
Public policy should recognize that employers, not universities, often provide the most socially valuable form of training and should redirect public resources accordingly.
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Searching for Capitalism in the Wreckage of Globalization
Mutual dependence between capital and labor, not mere “economic freedom,” is what Adam Smith so ably described. Globalization destroys it.
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2022 Annual Report
The platform we have built for a new conservative economic agenda—with its strong intellectual foundation, robust organizational infrastructure, and concrete policy proposals—is welcoming converts and playing host to the policymaking process.

We are charting the course for conservative economics.

  • Workers supporting strong families & communities
  • Markets fostering domestic industry & innovation

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Our work explores what has gone wrong in America’s economy, why, and how we can recover

Our Latest

Policy Brief
1/23/2023
Policy Brief: Pro-Worker Bankruptcy Reform
Put workers ahead of Wall Street when firms go bankrupt
Podcast
1/23/2023
Policy in Brief: Pro-Worker Bankruptcy Reform
On this episode of Policy in Brief, Oren and Chris take a look at the damage done to workers and local communities when businesses go bankrupt and propose reforms to better align risk and reword.
Commentary
1/6/2023 • Oren Cass
Ferment of Change Lurks in Republican Chaos
12/5/2022 • Chris Griswold
Republicans: Our Future Is Not With Free Markets. It’s With the Working Class 
11/28/2022 • Wells King
Myth-Busting Silicon Valley
10/25/2022 • Oren Cass
Liz Truss, Supply-Side Crush
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