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The Rise of Mesoeconomics

William H. Janeway

A growing body of literature focusing on the domain between the microeconomic and the macroeconomic has become increasingly relevant in a world beset by supply shocks. Armed with such insights, those designing industrial policies will have a better chance of achieving their overlapping economic- and national-security goals.

details how a long-neglected field of economic study can be applied to today's most pressing policy challenges.
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