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From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?
NEW HAVEN: Der in den Niederlanden geborene Philosoph und Satiriker Bernard Mandeville beschreibt in seiner klassischen Bienenfabel (1724) – in Versform – eine wohlhabende Gesellschaft (von Bienen), die sich plötzlich entscheidet, die Sparsamkeit zur Tugend zu machen und auf allen überschüssigen Aufwand und extravaganten Konsum zu verzichten. Was dann passierte?
Der Preis von Land und Häusern fiel.
Paläste, die erbaut aus Spiel-
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