Future of American Political Economy Conference Reading List
FRIDAY, JULY 23
WHICH WAY, AMERICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY?
- Alexander Hamilton: Report on Manufactures (excerpt)
- Adam Smith: Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of Such Goods as Can Be Produced at Home (Wealth of Nations, book 4, chapter 2)
CRONYISM AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE
- Alison Acosta Winters: The Ultimate Trifecta of Crony Capitalism (The American Conservative)
- Julius Krein: Trump Needed the “Boneheads” More Than He Knew (The New York Times)
FRIDAY EVENING KEYNOTE
- J. D. Vance: A Class War for Our Time (American Greatness)
SATURDAY, JULY 24
CHINA, GEONOMICS, AND GREAT POWER COMPETITION
- Doug Bandow: The U.S. Shouldn’t Be Afraid of China (Foreign Policy)
- Michael Lind: The China Question (Tablet)
BIG TECH CENSORSHIP AND MONOPOLY POWER
- Zach Graves: How to Fix Big Tech Without Big Government (The American Conservative)
- Rachel Bovard: It’s Time for Conservatives to Take on Big Tech Tyrants. Here’s How (The Federalist)
THRIVING FAMILIES AND MIDDLE-CLASS PROSPERITY
- Ramesh Ponnuru and Lyman Stone: Want More American Babies? Make the U.S. More Livable (Bloomberg)
- Chris Buskirk: There Is a Generational Divide Among Republicans (The New York Times)
SATURDAY EVENING KEYNOTE
- Amity Shlaes: Free Markets Can Appeal to the Working Class (National Review)
