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American Conservatives Are Working on the Railroads
The Railway Safety Act has made concrete the ideological debate raging between conservatives and libertarians over the role of government regulation in the free market.
Critics Corner with FreedomWorks’ Phil Bell on the Railway Safety Act
Oren Cass is joined by FreedomWorks’ Phil Bell for a wide-ranging discussion the Railway Safety Act of 2023.
Policy Brief: A Domestic Development Bank
Financing American industrial development
How Airbus Took Flight
The success of the aerospace company evidences strong returns on strategic industrial investment.
Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Pre-Competitive R&D Consortia
On this episode of Talkin’ (Policy) Shop, Oren and Chris are joined by Willy Shih, a professor at Harvard Business School, to discuss pre-competitive R&D consortia.
Policy Brief: Pre-Competitive R&D Consortia
Bridging the gap between basic research and the market
Airbus’s Industrial Flight Plan
How European bureaucrats built the business that beat Boeing
Joe Biden’s chips choices undermine bipartisan industrial initiatives
The White House is discrediting its promotion of domestic semiconductor production by linking it to childcare
The Undeniable Success of Israeli Industrial Policy
A prominent public role in R&D, business subsidies, and restrictions that keep both knowledge and production within our borders are not incompatible with rapid economic growth and technological progress.
How Industrial Policy Made the Desert Bloom
A case study on the public investments behind the Israeli economic miracle
Keeping Up with the Jones Act
American Compass policy advisor Gabriela Rodriguez discusses the Jones Act, shipping and supply chains, and striking a balance between national security and consumer interests.
Policy Brief: Local Content Requirements
Spur private investment, innovation, and competition by guaranteeing demand for domestic production
Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: Local Content Requirements
On this episode of Policy in Brief, Oren and Chris discuss how to spur private investment, innovation, and competition by guaranteeing demand for domestic production
Myth-Busting Silicon Valley
American Compass’s Wells King argues that Silicon Valley’s founder myth has things backward, misunderstanding the source of the regime’s power and flattering its worst instincts.
Silicon Valley’s Public Garages
The indispensable and effective role of public policy in building the digital age
American Compass Releases Conservative Economic Agenda for 118th Congress
Today, American Compass is releasing New Direction: Conservative Principles & Policies for the 118th Congress, an agenda for economic renewal, focused on the interests of worker, their families and communities, and the nation.
Uncle Sam’s Top-Performing Venture Fund
With the Small Business Innovation & Research program, Congress helped build many of the nation’s most innovative firms.
The American Camry
Wells King and Dan Vaughn, Jr. on how Reagan showed it was possible to wrangle foreign manufacturers to the U.S.
The Import Quota that Remade the Auto Industry
President Reagan negotiated a quota on Japanese imports that bought Detroit time to retool and spurred massive foreign investment in a new manufacturing base in the South.
