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The Once and Future American Labor Law

American labor law has become worse than useless: a lower share of the private-sector labor force is organized today than before the National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935. The time has come for an entirely new model.

Workers Are People, Not Widgets

Meet Alex and Lance, two blue-collar workers in southwestern Ohio. One had union representation as he sought a foothold in the labor market; the other did not. Their lives remind us that there is still power in a union.

Labor’s Conservative Heart

The trade union is a quintessentially Tocquevillian institution and the one that brought down Soviet communism. Conservatives must rescue the American labor movement from Big Labor’s partisanship and restore its community-building purpose.

Conservatives Should Ensure Workers a Seat at the Table

Statement on a conservative future for the American labor movement.

Open Letter Re: the Business Roundtable’s Commitment to Corporate Actual Responsibility

After a year of empty promises from CEOs, a Left-Right coalition propose a framework for substantive action

Constraining the Corporation

Business leaders have lost contact with the communities and institutions that might hold them accountable, escaped from the oversight and regulation that would channel their activities, and proven themselves shameless in the face of whatever weak standards of decency the culture still attempts to muster.

On Terms of Trade

The international trading system must recover the core principles of reciprocity, security, and democracy.

On Infrastructure Financing

A national development bank could attract the private capital that America’s infrastructure needs.

On Antitrust Enforcement

The American medical industry offers a case study of how market concentration undermines economic resilience.

On Agency Structure

A new task for government demands a new structure for its agencies.

On Regulatory Reform

Outdated environmental regulation poses an irrational barrier to reshoring efforts.

On Workforce Investment

Reshoring strategies can only go so far without investment in America’s skilled workforce.

On Domestic Sourcing

Local content requirements offer a simple intervention with benefits that its prohibitionist detractors ignore.

On Tax Incentives

A tax credit for domestic investment is the best way to reduce production costs.

On Research & Development

Pre-competitive research consortia are vital to sparking innovation.

Foreword: The Reshoring Imperative

You may not be interested in supply chains, but supply chains are interested in you.

Executive Summary

Nine strategies for retaking global leadership in industry and innovation

Planning for When the Market Cannot

The fact that government planners are not omniscient is obvious, but it does not automatically follow that planning is always ineffective. Perfect information is simply not a precondition of successful planning in either the private or the public sectors.

Foreword: On Security

The American system of innovation, combining strategic investment and private enterprise, made our nation’s industry the envy of the world. It can pave the way for widespread prosperity and security again today.

Rediscovering a Genuine American System

Economic stability, national security, widely shared prosperity, strong families, a pluralistic society—in short, the American way of life—are achievements plainly worth conserving. So is the only approach to economic policy that has ever proved capable of producing them.

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