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Michael Munger on Industrial Policy

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The Problem of Political Influence Can Be Solved With Appropriate Institutional Design

The author argues that a committee of experts would be better than markets at setting industrial policy. But he says it is impossible to implement such an idea in majoritarian democracy. He proposes three alternative states: laissez-faire investment in markets with regulatory agencies like the EPA or FTC. And then we get big corporations and labor who benefit from concentrated corporate and labor interests, he writes.

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