This campaign season has been pretty light on actual policy ideas. Today, Robert Samuelson has a piece that notes It is one of our fondest political myths that elections allow us collectively to settle thebig issues. The truth is that there’s often a bipartisan consensus to avoid the big issues, because they involve unpopular choices and conflicts. But I am happy to point to a couple current op-ed pieces about big issues.
Over at The American, “The Growth Solution,” by Carl Schramm and Robert Litan of the Kaufmann Foundation, highlights the ingredients that have made the U.S. prosperous, focusing on the style of capitalism that creates opportunities for entrepreneurs (rather than protecting entrenched businesses). The piece recalls their recent book, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity. They summarize:
The central task for policymakers is to ensure that our entrepreneurial revolution continues, and that we do not revert to anything like the Big Firm economy we once had.
Speaking of entrepreneurs, oilman T. Boone Pickens is financing a campaign to promote a reform plan for increasing U.S. energy independence. He has a piece in today Wall Street Journal outlining the proposal.
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