‘Bringing back jobs’ in low-end manufacturing is not the answer. It is an article of faith in the Trump campaign that he will “bring our jobs back from China, from Mexico, from Japan, from so many ...

The heated debate over Margaret Thatcher’s economic legacy shows many progressives have little use for the pro-market shift taken by US and UK policymakers starting in the late 1970s. They argue that ...

In the 1950s, around 35% of private-sector jobs in the U.S. were in manufacturing. Today, there are 12.8 million manufacturing jobs in the U.S., an amount equal to 9.4% of those private-sector jobs.

A manufacturing renaissance in America … really? In the 1950s, manufacturing accounted for 30 percent of America’s gross domestic product, which is the value of all goods and services produced in the ...