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A Distinctly American Industrial Policy Series

October 26, 2021

The government is always practicing industrial policy, whether it acknowledges it or not. In a moment of anxiety around supply chains, this series explains how the government can directly shape markets to better serve Americans. Exploring what an expanded industrial policy toolkit might look like, this series spotlights some of the specific instruments the US has successfully deployed in the past but which are not well-known outside of academia. These tools include:

price and profit controls,
government management of the production process,
international pooling and decommodification of natural and industrial resources, and more.

A Distinctly American Industrial Policy: An Introduction

By Todd N. Tucker

Price Controls: How the US Has Used Them and How They Can Help Shape Industries

By Todd N. Tucker

Latest Inflation Headlines an Opportunity to Revisit History of Price Controls as an Industrial Policy Tool

By Todd N. Tucker

Priorities and Allocations: How the Defense Production Act Allows Government to Mobilize Industry to Ensure Popular Well-Being

By Todd N. Tucker

How Biden Can Use the Defense Production Act to Power Green Industry

By Todd N. Tucker

Biden Just Released 1,358 Pages of Supply Chain Plans. A House Bill Is Key to Making Them a Reality.

By Todd N. Tucker

Everything is Climate Now: New Directions for Industrial Policy from Biden’s Supply Chain Reports

By Todd N. Tucker

Making Sense of Biden’s Green Energy Defense Production Act Announcements

By Todd N. Tucker

Seven Ways the Executive Branch Can Turbocharge Green Industrial Policy

By Arnab Datta, Ashley George, Joel Michaels, Todd N. Tucker

The Need for Corporate Guardrails in US Industrial Policy

By Lenore Palladino, Isabel Estevez

Using Industrial Policy to Reach Paris Agreement Goals

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Clean Supply Chains: An Opportunity to Usher in a New Generation of Place-Based Strategies for Economic Development

By Sunny Malhotra, Todd N. Tucker

Clean Energy Industrial Policy: A Go-To Issue with Nascent Bipartisan Appeal for Midterm Messaging

By Sunny Malhotra, Todd N. Tucker

Progressive Preemption: How the Defense Production Act Can Override Corporate Extraction, Boost Worker Power, and Expedite the Clean Energy Transition

By Joel Dodge, Joel Michaels, Lenore Palladino, and Todd N. Tucker