[3][4] Chase spent his early political career supporting "a wide range of reform causes: the single tax, women's suffrage, birth control and socialism.
"[3] Chase's early books, The Tragedy of Waste (1925) and Your Money's Worth (1927), were notable for their criticism of corporate advertising and their advocacy of consumer protection.
[13] In 1932, Chase wrote A New Deal, which became identified with the economic programs of American President Franklin Roosevelt.
Chase's 1938 book The Tyranny of Words was an early and influential popularization of Alfred Korzybski's theory of general semantics.
Chase supported United States non-interventionism and was against U.S. entry in World War II, advocating this position in his 1939 book The New Western Front.
Chase is famous for the rhetorical question at the end of his book A New Deal, "Why should the Soviets have all the fun remaking a world?"
On pages 95 and 96 of The Road We Are Traveling, under the heading of "Free Enterprise into 'X'",[16] Chase listed 18 characteristics of political economy that he had observed among[17] Russia, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain between 1913[18] and 1942.
He adds, "One need not swallow such absurdities as this, but one ought to recognise that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.