Industrial Policy for the United States

Why it’s on the list: Fasteau and Fletcher make the long-form case that the United States has always had an industrial policy and would be better off admitting it and running one deliberately — tariffs, targeted support, and the machinery of getting high-value industries to locate here. A thousand pages of it, which is the point: it is the reference argument rather than the op-ed.

Where I saw it: A link to the book’s own site (industrialpolicy.us), saved twice in the note.

Connections

• Industrial Policy — the subject.
• Manufacturing · Trade Policy · Free Trade — the three levers the book argues over.
• Chips For America — Kyle’s essay on the semiconductor case for exactly this.
• Technological Innovation · People Over Politics — the portfolio ideas this sits across.