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Economics

Does America Still Make Stuff?

Free trade did not obliterate manufacturing.

Andrew Heaton | 4.3.2026 11:00 AM

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Why does everybody think America doesn't make stuff anymore? Where is this expressly disprovable idea dribbling in from?

 

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Andrew Heaton is a producer at Reason. He is the author of, most recently, Tribalism Is Dumb: Where It Came From, How It Got so Bad, and What To Do About It.

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