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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
A New Conservatism: Freeing the Right From Free-Market Orthodoxy
FOREIGN AFFAIRS—American Compass executive director Oren Cass discusses a path forward for conservatism that is no longer bound by free-market orthodoxy.
Oren Cass Urges Conservatives to Shed Free-Market ‘Orthodoxy’
BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK—Peter Coy highlights American Compass executive director Oren Cass’s piece in Foreign Affairs on the path forward for post-Trump conservatism.
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.”
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.