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The political economy of China's cloud
A deep dive.
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JS Tan
Tariff Wreckage: The Myth of America's Manufacturing Comeback
Trump’s tariffs promise industrial revival. Even if it does, it overlooks the simple fact that fixing American industry alone won't restore middle-class…
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Industrial Policy for the Knowledge Economy: The case of Hangzhou
How the city's talent-focused policies fueled a high-tech revolution.
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Why Trump's tariff won't revive American industry
Yet his (and Elon Musk's) efforts to gut state capacity and reverse Biden's industrial policies will only ensure America falls further behind.
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Behind the AI Arms Race: U.S. vs. China Cloud Computing Comparison
Firm ownership structure and industrial policy are critical yet under-discussed differences between the American and Chinese cloud sectors.
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Grace Shao
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The Political Foundations of Green Industrial Policy
Why can some countries and not others generate the political will to support green industrial policy?
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JS Tan
America's Era of Hidden Industrial Policy
Before the US started doing industrial policy out in the open, it was doing industrial policy behind closed doors
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The Rise and Fall of Industrial Policy
Industrial policy is back. Here's a brief intellectual history of why it went away.
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Varieties of Green Growth Policies
Green growth policies have taken many forms. Some hold more promise than others
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Can China do industrial policy efficiently?
Not really. But that hasn’t stopped China from doing it anyway.
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Inside the New Productivist Economy
Introducing Value Added, a newsletter about the political economy of innovation.
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JS Tan
The Value of Manufacturing
Why has manufacturing historically had a unique capacity to drive economic development?
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