Industrial policy
Trump’s effort to pick America’s corporate winners will end badly
State intervention will undermine key industries by allocating resources inefficiently.
America needs someone to connect the economic dots
Should Kamala Harris be elected, she’ll need to focus on systems thinking
Getting industrial policy right is a tricky business
Politicians should acknowledge what we stand to lose in the new era of suspicion, protectionism and interventionism
Nuclear power needed to transform Singapore’s industrial economy
Five neighbouring countries commenced nuclear research as early as the 1950s, so the Republic has no time to lose
America (still) has no industrial policy
Subsidies, tariffs and good intentions don’t add up to what is needed
An industrial strategy for Europe
The EU needs to look beyond direct subsidies to boost the continent’s tech sector
Boiling America’s economy
IT IS said that if you put a frog in boiling water, it immediately jumps out; but if you put it in cold water and gradually turn up the heat, it does not react – and is eventually boiled to death. Som...
Governments are embracing a radical alternative to globalisation
But introducing industrial policy, or “homeland economics”, is a big mistake, argues Callum Williams
America’s industrial policy is counterproductive
LAST year’s United States Chips and Science Act created large subsidies for investments in domestic semiconductor fabrication facilities, on the grounds that microchips are essential both to the US ec...
