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Misunderstanding the British Industrial Revolution Is Reinforcing Technology Pessimism About AI

Hey EU, Did Ya See the Memo?

Innovation Doesn’t Equal Productivity, and Patents Don’t Always Represent Innovation

Worker-Oriented Republicanism Is Not an America First Agenda

Unions and Their Drag on Productivity and Competitiveness

The CCP’s Useful Idiots

Tracking and Copying Global Best-in-Class Productivity Practices

I Haven’t Worked in Industry, But I’m Right About America’s Robot Problem

What Happened to the American Business Creed? Part II: Societal Attacks

Bernie Sanders’ Worker Dystopia: Never Lose Your Job But Never Get a Raise

What Happened to the American Business Creed? Part I: Business Attacks

The Paramount Question: Do Countries Actually Want Growth?

Hey, AI Job Doomers: Wanna Bet?

Brussels’ Strategic Choice: Forge a Western Alliance to Prevail Over China, or Triangulate and Lose

Is It Too Much to Ask for a Third Way Beyond Free Trade and Constrained Trade?

Abundance of Meh

The Green Light: Blame Washington for Corporate America Investing in China

Time for at Least One US University to Offer a Graduate Degree in Industrial Policy

The American Business Creed: What’s Right and What’s Wrong

The False Case for Cooperation With China

Three Cheers for Industrial Policy

Mission-Oriented Innovation or Mission-Enabled Innovation?

What’s Going on With All the Manufacturing Decline Deniers?

Yes, We Do Want to Be Like China

US Antitrust as an Anti-Competitiveness Weapon

If They Told You Wolverines Would Make Good House Pets, Prime Minister, Would You Believe Them?

Rostow’s The Stages of Growth Needs a Sixth Stage

US Science Policy at a Crossroads

Fixing America’s Quality Crisis Starts With Reforming the Baldrige Award

The Fantasy of “Uninationals” and the Reality of Why America Needs Multinationals

Federal Lights on for Lights-Out Factories

Why America Must Embrace Job-Killing Technology

Family First or Country First? Why National Conservatives’ Family Tax Cuts Miss the Mark

Serious About Shrinking Government? Cut the SBA

Climate Utopians’ Crusade Against Climate Realists

Forget GDP. The Real Reason to Boost Manufacturing Is Power

“Khanservative” Antitrust Is Not the Answer to the Failure of Neoliberalism

Trump’s Gilded Age Governing Agenda

Never Fight a Multifront Trade War: Why the United States Will Lose

Squaring the Trump Circle: Free Markets and Tariffs

A Tax-Based Industrial Policy to Compete With China

The Trump Administration Should Get Industry More Involved in University Research Funding

Trump Trade Negotiations: Embrace Strategic Trade, Not Autarky

Will Xi’s Gamble Not Pay Off?

Liberation Day: Explaining Trump’s Tariffs

What Manufacturing Rebound?

America Has a National Security Strategy. Where Is Its National Competitiveness Strategy?

Immigration and Innovation: What’s the Connection?