Episode 13: Keeping Up with the Jones Act Pt. II w/ Colin Grabow

In a prior episode, Gabriela Rodriguez of American Compass argued that the Jones Act, a law aimed at supporting the U.S. ship building should be reformed—not repealed. On The Dynamist’s first ever “rebuttal episode,” Evan is joined by Colin Grabow, a research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies. They discuss why Grabow supports a full repeal of the Jones Act, his response to Rodriguez’s proposed reforms, and what a post-Jones Act world might look like. 

Cato blog, “More Industrial Policy Won’t Solve the Jones Act’s Many Problems”

Op-ed in The Atlantic, “The Obscure Maritime Law That Ruins Your Commute”