
A common sense economic agenda


Claims that everything connects skate over trade-offs and tensions, like those between the speed of progress towards net zero and effects on social justice. Such views can also encourage a hermetically sealed network of ideas, incapable of engaging with enemies or learning from them, since if these ideas really are so pure and harmonious, they will
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The cosmopolitan outlook of Smart America overlaps in some areas with the libertarian views of Free America. Each embraces capitalism and the principle of meritocracy: the belief that your talent and effort should determine your reward. In the narrative of Smart America, meritocracy stands alongside democracy as the twin pillars of the American sys
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