Viable industries injured by predatory PRC competition need renewal, not a merciful death. That will require sector-specific ...

AI investment is booming, but manufacturing output is stagnant. America needs industrial policy to restore manufacturing and ...

Adam Thierer’s book Permissionless Innovation asked whether innovators would be forced to seek permission from officials before deploying new technologies, or left free to experiment first and address ...

The wonkosphere was in full tizzy mode over the last month because, miracle of miracles, the World Bank supposedly now says that industrial policy is not akin to economic malpractice. For the high ...

Alas, the United States has gone off the deep end with AI fear. This month alone, there has been a notable burst of warnings about the “dangers” of AI from the very people building, financing, and ...

How does one account for the seeming contradiction that the Trump administration is the most free-market, small-government administration since the Coolidge administration, yet tariffs are the core of ...

With a new president in the White House, it’s worth looking back and assessing the performance of U.S. manufacturing during the last four years. Defenders of the Biden administration’s record argue ...

The older I get, the more I realize that most people want to believe what they want to believe. Probably including me. Case in point: So many people today have wrongly bought into the idea that ...

In his 1841 defining work, German developmentalist economist Friedrich List accused the United Kingdom of hypocrisy. Having built its industrial supremacy behind tariffs, the Navigation Acts, and ...

Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Good news, of course. Europe is finally waking up to the fact that it has serious innovation, competitiveness, and productivity challenges—what the ...