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Joel Dodge

@joeldodge07.bsky.social
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Industrial Policy & Economic Security at Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator (www.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt-polic…). Attorney, Policy Advisor, Writer. Views are my own.

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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In a new Substack, I make the case that public factories are an important missing tool in the abundance toolkit.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/2026
As @leahstokes.bsky.social @joeldodge07.bsky.social and I told @zcolman.bsky.social of @politico.com this morning, we need to start early with a plan to tackle climate at speed and scale... and with results seen quick enough to build and sustain public support. www.eenews.net/articles/pro...
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Project 2029? Democratic insiders make the case for focusing on climate change.
Seventeen essays outline a clean energy action plan for a future Democratic president.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/2026
NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable
Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
From big chain pharmacy closures to corporate pressure on independent pharmacies, access to medicine is under strain in New York City. In a new paper, Dana Brown & I have a plan to fix it. 🗽💊Introducing CityRx vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/why-new-yo...
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Why New York City Needs Public-Powered Pharmacies
New York City has a growing pharmacy gap, and the culprit is corporate power.
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Every Democrat should commit to clawing this back and reallocating the money to clean energy supply chains
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 16/05/2026
1/ Amid all the hype around China's 15th FYP, worth revisiting this CTVC piece to understand how clean tech financing actually works in China — and what it means for Western strategy. www.ctvc.co/an-insiders-...
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In a new @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social piece, I explain how this agenda from @repcasar.bsky.social & @usprogressives.bsky.social revives an American tradition of DIY progressivism that promotes affordability by using public factories to counter monopoly power washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/18/p...
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The Affordability Case for Public Factories
Public factories once helped America fight monopoly pricing. A new push would revive them to lower drug costs and ease supply bottlenecks.
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 20/04/2026
NEW | Record exports of solar, batteries and EVs last month 📈 China’s exports for the ‘new three’ industries reached a record high of $21.9bn in March 2026, up 70% year-on-year, in the wake of the US-Israel war with Iran and changing export rebates for solar and batteries.
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
In the supply-shock era, we should revisit a lost industrial policy tool: public factories. 🏭In a new paper, Ganesh Sitaraman & I explore the history & future of US public factories. ⚡️In another paper, I propose public factories for critical energy components www.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt-p... 🧵
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Public Factories
Our Work Public factories can be powerful means to support production of critical goods. Policymakers at all levels of government have deployed government-owned production facilities throughout Americ...
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 24/03/2026
NEW from me and @joeldodge07.bsky.social for @rooseveltinstitute.org / Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator: Trump is using the Defense Production Act to promote fossil fuel of a major donor. We show how it could instead be used to promote clean energy Abundance. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Trump Wields Defense Production Act to Promote Fossil Fuels. It Could Instead Be Used to Promote All-of-the-Above Energy Abundance.
Reasonable people might think the DPA is no longer serving its purpose and should be abandoned. We argue this would be a short-sighted mistake, given the likely severity of the crises the US will soon...
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We’ve now seen the full downside cycle of submerged state industrial policy: enactors don’t get credit, and repeaters don’t get blame. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...
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In Kentucky, People Blame Ford More Than Trump for Lost Factory Jobs
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Brown industrial policy
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Wrote for @heatmap.news with @narayansub.bsky.social about a largely forgotten effort at American energy industrial policy—the Energy Security Act of 1980—and the lessons it holds for new efforts today: heatmap.news/ideas/energy...
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The Last Time America Tried to Legislate Its Way to Energy Affordability
Lawmakers today should study the Energy Security Act of 1980.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 09/12/2025
Companies receiving equity infusions outperforming the S&P500. @joeldodge07.bsky.social offers thoughts on why. www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/i...
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Uncle Sam is outperforming the S&P 500 | CNN Business
The Trump administration is investing in publicly traded companies — and it’s sending stocks soaring higher.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 12/11/2025
Good post from @joeldodge07.bsky.social running down the reasons for governments to take equity stakes in companies. vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/the-cases-...
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The Cases for Government Equity Stakes
Over the last few months, the second Trump administration has embarked upon a spree of deals taking equity stakes in private companies.
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Great piece on how Trump’s R&D austerity and privatization moves amount to negative industrial policy.
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Last week, Jamie Dimon announced JPMorganChase was creating a Trump-aligned $1.5 trillion industrial policy fund. In a new post for Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator's Substack, I explain the perils of this kind of privatized industrial policy. vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/the-perils...
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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I talked to the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator’s Joel Dodge about Trump’s unique brand of authoritarian-flavored industrial policy for this week’s @washingtonmonthly.com roundup: open.substack.com/pub/washingt...
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L'etat, c'est Trump
Trump's version of "state capitalism" is just another facet of his self-dealing authoritarianism. It may enrich his family but will beggar the economy.
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 12/09/2025
10/ The transition will happen with or without US participation. By withdrawing from these industries and blocking allies from Chinese partnerships, America risks becoming a bystander to the biggest economic transformation of our time.
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The Green Marshall Plan is happening. It’s just being led by China.
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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The president uses government leverage to extract equity stakes, profit-sharing deals, and special voting rights from major corporations. These are familiar tools—but Trump’s unchecked dealmaking could be disastrous. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/03/t...
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Trump’s Industrial Policy: What’s Right and Wrong
Trump’s industrial policy includes equity stakes, profit-sharing, and golden shares in major corporations. The outcome could be disastrous.
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Audrey Stienon @astienon.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Industrial policies like public ownership of corporate equity are powerful means of aligning corporate actions with gov priorities—but they can thus also become tools for consolidating authoritarian power. Rather than rejecting policies outright, we need better discussions on democratic guardrails
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I did a deep dive for the @washingtonmonthly.com taking stock of the emerging Trump II industrial policy and where it might be headed. Link below: 🧵1/8
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This theory from @ryanlcooper.com is perhaps the only sensible explanation for the US whipsawing from green industrial policy to brown industrial policy. prospect.org/environment/...
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Is the Republican Party a Chinese Communist Conspiracy?
The Senate GOP just voted to destroy the economies of their own districts and hand 21st century industry to a foreign adversary.
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 29/06/2025
The industrial policy see-saw: One party tries to use it to reduce carbon emissions, the other party switches to a version that increases them.
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
👀 “The deal will also give the U.S. government a “golden share” in the company, a rarely used practice through which the government takes a stake in company.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/b...
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U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel Say Their ‘Partnership’ Is Sealed
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The IRA’s vulnerability in a nutshell: “Until we see somebody get hired, until somebody goes to Kroger’s and tells their friend in the produce section, ‘Hey, I just got a job there,’ it’s not real yet” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/c...
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In Georgia, Republicans Vote to Kill Green Jobs but Face Little Fallout
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/05/2025
I suspect this is true and if so it is just an epically, fatefully, cosmically awful decision that will condemn this country to long-term decline.
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"[P]ost-neoliberalism was a healthy correction to an economic system that was often too deferential to markets & too inattentive to the realities of politics. Abandoning it over its failures would be easy; the challenge is to find a way to build on its successes." 💯 by Roge Karma @theatlantic.com
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The Debate That Will Determine How Democrats Govern Next Time
Did the party lose in 2024 despite Joe Biden’s economic approach, or because of it?
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“While a temporary reprieve from the shockingly high tariffs is cause for celebration for businesses in both countries, the repercussions will linger. Businesses will likely encounter a flood of pent-up demand, leading to soaring transport prices” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...
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U.S. and China Agree to Temporarily Slash Tariffs in Bid to Defuse Trade War
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My piece in @thehill.com: 🐓Egg companies are using avian flu as an excuse to bilk consumers 💰Those companies are making record profits 🫴And they’re getting taxpayer-funded USDA bailouts The government should outlaw price-gouging by companies getting public subsidies thehill.com/opinion/camp...
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Great idea from @costasamaras.com @rooseveltinstitute.org for a "Federal Reserve for tracking decarbonization" to "analyze how well the economy is making progress toward decarbonization outcomes, identify risks to that progress & make plans to course correct." rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/buildin...
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Building a World Without Carbon Requires Megaproject Thinking - Roosevelt Institute
One of the biggest mistakes we can make in the current moment is to assume climate change is only an environmental problem—one that we will address at some time in the future. Climate change is an eve...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/04/2025
This is an interesting defense of "everything-bagel liberalism" from @joeldodge07.bsky.social. Attaching conditions to public funding has worked for the CHIPS act; whereas public funding without conditions is simply corporate welfare with little democratic legitimacy.
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In Defense of Everything-Bagel Liberalism | Washington Monthly
Critics warned that the Biden administration put so many conditions on the grants it offered to semiconductor manufacturers that the centerpiece of its industrial policy would fail. Those conditions t...
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Really excited to dive into the new @c-hughes.bsky.social book
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Wherein I take to the pages of the @washingtonmonthly.com to defend the honor of Everything-Bagel Liberalism washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/24/i...
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Jeff Gordon @jeffgordon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Excellent essay by @joeldodge07.bsky.social. "Everything bagel liberalism" might be a useful critique in theory but the examples critics have relied on (like childcare in CHIPS) are super weak. The firms got a good deal and the public got basic protections. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/24/i...
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In Defense of Everything-Bagel Liberalism | Washington Monthly
Critics warned that the Biden administration put so many conditions on the grants it offered to semiconductor manufacturers that the centerpiece of its industrial policy would fail. Those conditions t...
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
China’s trade war aces (via @gideonrachman.bsky.social) www.ft.com/content/2112...
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My over-arching Abundance take is that the future of the Democratic Party will be a national figure who successfully crafts a synthesis between the supply-side liberalism of @dkthomp.bsky.social & @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, and the industrial policy & anti-oligarchy of left populism.
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"Following the Mar-a-Lago dinner, the White House reversed course on H20 chips, putting the plan for additional restrictions [on China] on hold... "The change of course ... came after Nvidia promised the Trump administration new U.S. investments in AI data centers" www.npr.org/2025/04/09/n...
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Trump administration backs off Nvidia's 'H20' chip crackdown after Mar-a-Lago dinner
The White House was expected to ban sales of the high-performance AI chip to China. Chinese companies had been stockpiling the chip but now the Trump administration is backing off.
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Sounds like yesterday's court hearing over the EPA's attempt to steal from the IRA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund went rather poorly for the Trump administration: www.utilitydive.com/news/epa-att...
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The tariffs are clearly a play to get China et al to end their woke DEI practices and commit pro Bono hours to conservative causes.
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It occurs to me that not only will Degrowth Donald’s tariffs curb emissions during his term (through a global recession), but if kept in place, will also set up the next Dem president to unwind them on the cleanest economies — leaving a de facto carbon tariff. Masterful! @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvania’s Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign. (lancasteronline.com/news/politic...)
Malone said Saturday that his campaign volunteers have heard concerns from thousands of voters over Musk’s work with the Trump administration to reshape the federal government, which he said has led to “benefits for veterans, retirees and students” being cut “so Elon Musk can get a tax cut.”

“Josh Parsons might be OK with that but I’m not,” Malone said. “On Tuesday, you’ll get to make the choice between more Musk, or Lancaster values.”
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
An abundance of Abundance
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.
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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
4) We also discussed a tension in Shor's polling: Voters say that Dems should be more moderate, but also, to deliver "major change" Shor argues that economic populism can appeal to such voters, and that Harris's promise to "take on landlords" was her best message www.vox.com/politics/403...
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Joel Dodge @joeldodge07.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In addition to tax policy, the “borrow” part of this three-step could be addressed through credit controls (which I proposed in a different context here: cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-co...) - i.e., an upper limit on the amount any one individual may borrow.
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