Lincoln’s economic philosophy rested on what he called “free labor” or the belief that all honest work deserves dignity, opportunity and reward. He viewed invention and labor not as opposing forces but as partners in progress.

To secure a free and prosperous future, a people must first reclaim its capacity to produce. It must cultivate its orchard before it can enjoy its fruit.

Rebuilding the practice uniting power, production and policy. Imagination and dreams lead to ambitions oriented toward a horizon vision. The Political Economy Project was born from decades of wondering why the world is the way it is and, more importantly, how we can make it better. The Fracture At the University of Michigan, where I studied political science and philosophy, I noticed something strange. Politics and economics were treated as separate planets orbiting different