Conservative Economics
Rediscovering a Genuine American System
From the Founding to the Cold War, America’s leading statesmen and political economists understood the importance of a robust national economic policy.
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Rebooting the American System
The comprehensive, conservative case for a return to robust national economic policy
Rediscovering a Genuine American System
From the Founding to the Cold War, America’s leading statesmen and political economists understood the importance of a robust national economic policy.
Planning for When the Market Cannot
The “knowledge problem” is real, but a more practical approach is needed for navigating the challenges of government planning.
Removing the Blinders from Economic Policy
If we want the market to serve the needs of the American people, we must remove the blinders of market reductivism and recover the tools of economic policy.
News & Commentary
When Market Economists Fail
CLAREMONT REVIEW OF BOOKS—American Compass’s Oren Cass critiques public choice theory as applied in defense of a libertarian agenda.
The Elite Needs to Give Up Its G.D.P. Fetish
THE NEW YORK TIMES—American Compass’s Oren Cass suggests that the professional class might learn from the pandemic that “material living standards” do not always translate into “quality of life.”
The American System: How We Return To An Economy That Lifts All Americans
DAILY CALLER—American Compass’s Wells King outlines his arguments from his essay on “Rediscovering a Genuine American System” in this adaption.
Recovering the American Tradition of Economic Policy
NATIONAL REVIEW—American Compass’s Wells King and Oren Cass and American Affairs’ Julius Krein summarize their arguments from Rebooting the American System in this short adaptation.
The Return of Conservative Economics
NATIONAL REVIEW—Today we are announcing the formation of American Compass, an organization dedicated to helping American conservatism recover from its chronic case of market fundamentalism.