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Nuclear Power Is Dead. Long Live Nuclear Power.
The plan is simple: build a nuclear energy system so capable, so reliable and so affordable that it becomes the foundation for a new industrial age.
Oct 28


Why Railroad Rules
When rails flourish, so does industry, agriculture and the living bond between city and countryside. When rails decay, the arteries of production harden and the nation loses its rhythm and unity.
Oct 27


Mind-Bending Ideas from Edgar Allan Poe’s Theory of Everything
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Oct 22


America’s Infrastructure As a National Security Threat
Infrastructure isn’t just concrete and steel. It is the productive scaffolding of civilization. Either we rebuild it (through public financing) or we decay along with it.
Oct 21


Restoring the Republic’s Productive Power - Part 2
Freedom is creation and production. To labor freely, to build, invent and improve, is to participate in the divine act of progress itself.
Oct 20


The Political Economy Project’s Weekly Roundup Highlighting the Powers of Production
Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt. 'The beginnings of all things are small.' – Cicero
Oct 17


Restoring the Republic’s Productive Power
From a Consumer Economy to a Producer Nation For decades economic policy has treated consumption as the engine of prosperity. Every stimulus, every boom and bust, and every political promise has turned on the same assumption: if consumers spend more, the economy will grow. But what if that assumption is backward? What if true wealth comes not from spending but from producing—building, inventing, and improving the physical foundations of life? This is the premise of the Polit
Oct 16


Lincoln on Innovation, Labor and the Moral Purpose of Progress
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.
Oct 15


Why England Fought for Free Trade Only After It Got Rich
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.
Oct 14


Why I Refused to Pretend Economics Isn’t Political
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
Oct 13
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