Conservative Economics
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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.
Atlas
A Guide to Economic Inequality
The data show that American inequality is higher now than at any time since WWII, and the gap is getting wider.
News & Commentary
Are You Better Off Than You Were Forty Years Ago?
MODERN AGE—American Compass executive director Oren Cass discusses economic shifts over the past 40 years and why economists and policymakers need to embrace a more holistic view of what it means to be “better off.”
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.
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.
Essays
Marginal Prophets
The anthropology of magic explains economists better than economists explain the economy
The Government Should Keep Its Hands Off Your Medicare
On Contributory Social Insurance and the Work Ethic