The base model:

The value of adv. mfg. industries like chipmaking is not just in the jobs — which are nice and indirectly support more local jobs — but in the complex local supply chain it anchors, LT human capital / learning spillovers and related “option value” on future emerging industries.

Noncompetes for lower- and middle-wage workers are atrocious, humiliating, and obviously bad for economic dynamism. Excellent piece from Amelia Pollard, James Fontanella-Khan, and @anjliraval: on.ft.com/4d3cSiz

Opening the bidding for book and script deals now.

I'll be participating, pitching the Chipmaker's Visa: eig.org/chipmakers-vis…

We love a Repost King

Exciting opportunity to come build an initiative at Federation of American Scientists🔬 focused on transforming government capacity, working alongside me, senior fellows Jennifer Pahlka, Cristin Dorgelo, and the rest of our fantastic team.

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Pass the CTC expansion to support families
Pass the R&D fix for businesses
Turn off the fraud taps.

The status quo is that we’re sending $70b+ to criminals when we could use that to invest in those investing in the future

A Brussels mayor attempted to shut down a NatCon conference today by force. I for one am glad that opponents of the move can appeal to the liberal values of free speech, free association, and equal treatment under the law. reason.com/2024/04/16/bru…

More transparently shoddy work from Heritage here.

'Labor productivity in US manufacturing has grown nearly sixfold since 1950, compared to a mere doubling in the rest of the economy. The result has been a striking increase in the manufacturing sector’s ability to produce goods, but also an equally dramatic decline in its

ICMYI - great news, BLM is adopting categorical exclusions to streamline permitting for geothermal exploration.

What's the upshot? Exploration for geothermal resources should be a little bit easier. 🧵

CHIPs money announced for Samsung. It's important to celebrate the road not taken. Would be easy for the govt to have gone with 'state champion' approach with Intel, but instead we have a diverse investment in global companies without the nationalism. Thats the right approach

An excellent article on the progress in Progress Studies: reason.com/2024/04/06/pro…

On April 25th, I'm hosting the first live Statecraft interview!

Our guest: economist Chris Snyder, who helped design the advanced market commitment for Operation Warp Speed. Call it 'How to Save 700,000 Lives.'

Registration:

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In a new Q&A with Connor O’Brien, Joe Studwell discusses the US industrial policy debate:

'If we then think of developed countries presently toying with the idea of renewed industrial policy—the UK or the US—the challenge is more difficult for two reasons...'

Given the effect of How Asia Works, I'm really looking forward to Studwell's book on African development (via Connor O’Brien: eig.org/joe-studwell-q…):

Excited to teach the first ever University of Oxford seminar to combine top AI builders + philosophers w/ Prof Philipp Koralus

Our visitors have helped build Midjourney, Imbue, Stripe, Google DeepMind, Anthropic

AI 🤝 philosophy

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