Restoring conservative economics (with Oren Cass)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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“Conservative economics” in the U.S. has become synonymous with libertarian principles. But that’s not what American conservatism was originally about. Oren Cass, the executive director of a new think tank called American Compass, is on a mission to restore conservative economics to its roots in family, community, and industry—and he joins Nick and Goldy to find common ground. 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 Show us some love by leaving a rating or a review! RateThisPodcast.com/pitchforkeconomics Further reading: 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: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	There's a conservative economics, Nick?
0:02.8	Yeah, yes, there is.
0:05.9	What we casually call conservative in America today
0:09.3	is for the most part not conservative at all.
0:11.4	It's libertarian. And what I mean by that is it places really
0:14.9	almost absolute priority on free markets, on free trade, on everything that has the word free in it to the
0:21.5	exclusion of a lot of other things that are really
0:24.0	important to human flourishing and and a prosperous nation.
0:29.4	From the home offices of Civic Ventures in downtown Seattle, this is Pitch Fork Economics with
0:37.8	Nick Hanauer, the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why. I'm Nick Henauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
0:49.0	I'm Nick Henauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
0:52.0	I'm David Goldstein, Senior Fellow at Civic Ventures.
0:59.2	Well Goldie, today we get to talk to an incredibly interesting person,
1:03.2	Orrin Cass, who's the executive director of American Compass.
1:07.5	He's trying to figure out how to reinvent conservative economics. There's a conservative economics, Nick?
1:15.0	Yeah, yes there is.
1:18.0	And Orrin is a brilliant guy.
1:21.0	He was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for a while, not our favorite
1:26.4	organization. But he was a domestic policy director for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.
1:34.0	He's a very thoughtful guy working on trying to find a new way for
1:41.0	conservatives to think about economics and economic policy.
1:46.0	In a constructive way that is free from all of that
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