Reclaiming conservative economics (with Oren Cass)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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These days "conservative economics" can mean anything from strict libertarianism to formless Trumpism. But what were the foundations of American conservatism? According to Oren Cass, the executive director of a think tank called American Compass, the answer is simple: family, community, and industry. He shares his mission to reclaim American conservatism and joins Nick and Goldy in a search for some common ground. This episode was originally released in December 2020. Oren Cass is the executive director of American Compass, whose mission is to restore an economic orthodoxy that emphasizes the importance of faith, community, and industry to the nation’s liberty and prosperity. He is the author of ‘The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America’. Twitter: @oren_cass Workers of the World: https://americancompass.org/essays/workers-of-the-world The elite needs to give up its GDP fetish: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/opinion/us-gdp-coronavirus.html Oren Cass on the future of economics and society: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/economics-after-partisanship-markets-society Website: https://pitchforkeconomics.com Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	Hi, Pitchfork economics listeners. I'm Ashley, one of the producers here at the show.
0:04.0	We're taking a break this summer, which means no new episodes, but in the meantime,
0:08.2	we're re-releasing some of our favorite past episodes.
0:11.6	Like this one, from December 2020 with Orrin Cass.
0:15.2	He's the executive director of a think tank called American Compass,
0:18.8	whose mission is to restore conservative economics,
0:21.6	better known as libertarianism.
0:23.7	Don't forget to follow the show on Apple's Spotify or wherever you usually listen,
0:27.4	and please leave us a five star rating or review.
0:31.2	There's a conservative economics, Nick?
0:34.4	Yeah. Yes, there is.
0:36.4	What we casually call conservative in America today is for the most part not conservative at all.
0:41.9	It's libertarian. And what I mean by that is it places really almost absolute priority
0:47.2	on free markets, on free trade, on everything that has the word free in it,
0:51.7	to the exclusion of a lot of other things that are really important to human flourishing
0:56.5	and and a prosperous nation.
1:03.4	From the home offices of civic ventures in downtown Seattle,
1:06.4	this is Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer,
1:09.4	the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why.
1:19.4	I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
1:22.4	I'm David Goldstein, senior fellow at Civic Ventures.
1:29.6	Well, Goldie, today, we get to talk to an incredibly interesting person,
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