Learning from the Marshall Plan as a state-planned, state-funded approach to reindustrialise Western Europe after WWII.
Tag: Reinert
The historical evidence of the role of the state in economic growth, based on Reinert’s book “How Rich Countries Got Rich… and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor”.
A summary of List’s sophisticated theory of the role that protectionism can play on the path to global free trade.
The real reasons Britain grew rich (hint: it wasn’t free trade and small government)
A summary of a recent paper by Adair Turner on the impact of automation on unemployment and the economy in general, and the implications for social cohesion.