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October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
Although protectionism has become a rare point of bipartisan consensus in America, the public debate about it gets some basic facts wrong. Yes, trade is disruptive, but the US has…
October 18, 2024
Harris and Trump Are Equally Silent on the Expanding US Debt
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris seem to agree that one of the nation’s most important challenges should remain unaddressed — a problem that has been slowly eroding the foundations of…
October 18, 2024
Pro-Marriage Conservatives Should Reject a Per-Child Phase-In of the Child Tax Credit
…reason to restrain a boost in the maximum credit amount. These three reforms are productive ways to increase the generosity of the credit, including for families with lower incomes. The…
October 17, 2024
Harris’ Tax Plans Would Reduce Long-Term Prosperity. Trump’s Proposals Might Be Even Worse.
AEI Scholar and Director of Economic Policy Studies Michael R. Strain contributed to the Dispatch’s Symposium titled Economic Policy Experts: Doom, Thy Name Is Populism, as a group of experts outlined…
October 16, 2024
11 Ways the Federal Government Is Making It More Difficult to Access Career Pathways
Key Points The federal higher education and workforce systems live in mortal fear of a single dollar being wasted by those outside their reach, but when insiders waste billions of…
October 15, 2024
Why Should the US Wish to Be More Like China?
…https://twitter.com/MichaelRStrain/status/1846187710563623000 But why should the U.S. wish our economic policy to be more like China’s? From my AESG paper: China’s central planning will not be remembered as a long-term success. It…
October 9, 2024
How to Make Millionaire Teachers
The very best teacher in America makes about the same salary and teaches about the same number of students as the very worst teacher. This is because we treat educators…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
https://twitter.com/MichaelRStrain/status/1844047782505808245 An influential 2013 paper by economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson finds an average reduction in manufacturing employment of 90,000 jobs per year from 1990 to 2007 because of…
October 3, 2024
The New “Old Girls Network” in the American Workplace
…compared to the successes of college-educated women. This gulf in workplace experiences follows the pattern of strained gender relations in other areas of American life, culture, and politics. These differences…
October 3, 2024
Protectionism is Failing and Wrongheaded: An Evaluation of the Post-2017 Shift toward Trade Wars and Industrial Policy
Abstract The Trump–Pence and Biden–Harris administrations enthusiastically embraced protectionism. Each administration explicitly argued for a break from the bipartisan consensus of recent decades that has been generally supportive of free…