Industrial Policy Did Not Bring Prosperity to Asia

Tags Bureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismProgressivismSocialism

01/09/2023Lipton Matthews

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Forty years ago, American politicians claimed that Japanese economic success was due to government economic planning. Unfortunately, the myth of industrial policy never seems to die, no matter how many times it is discredited.

Original Article: "Industrial Policy Did Not Bring Prosperity to Asia"

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Lipton Matthews is a researcher, business analyst, and contributor to Merion West, The Federalist, American Thinker, Intellectual Takeout, mises.org, and Imaginative Conservative. Visit his YouTube channel, with numerous interviews with a variety of scholars, here. He may be contacted at lo_matthews@yahoo.com or on Twitter (@matthewslipton).