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Moving the Chains
9 Strategies for Retaking Global Leadership in Industry and Innovation
Executive Summary
Nine strategies for retaking global leadership in industry and innovation
On Domestic Sourcing
Local content requirements offer a simple intervention with benefits that its prohibitionist detractors ignore.
On Workforce Investment
Reshoring strategies can only go so far without investment in America’s skilled workforce.
On Terms of Trade
The international trading system must recover the core principles of reciprocity, security, and democracy.
Conversations
Trade After Trump: A Post-Mortem with Former U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer
Former U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Robert E. Lighthizer joins American Compass executive director Oren Cass for a conversation about trade policy, in his first interview since leaving the administration.
Policy Proposals
Research & Atlas
A Guide to the Semiconductor Industry
How the U.S. fell behind its competitors in the global race for leadership in the semiconductor industry.
News & Commentary
America’s Microchip Slip
NATIONAL REVIEW—American Compass’s Oren Cass and Richard Oyeniran explore the decline of America’s semiconductor industry and how the U.S. can retake the lead in the great semiconductor race.
Left, Right, and Center Discuss Federal Industrial Policies
EVENT—American Compass’s research director Wells King shares key insights from the “Moving the Chains” policy symposium on the inaugural panel for the Industry Studies Association’s new webinar series.
To Counter China, Some Republicans are Abandoning Free-Market Orthodoxy
THE WASHINGTON POST—Jeanne Whalen reports on Republican enthusiasm for industrial policy, citing American Compass’s Moving the Chains report.