& BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-02-07 Mo: I can feel Debby Wu here trying to restrain herself: Debby Wu: Chipmakers Are Outspending Governments: ‘Florida unveiled a $9.7 million program to boost state infrastructure and train future semiconductor engineers… off by a few orders of magnitude…" Not just not in the game. Not having a clue as to where the game even might be played. It is not as though Republican politicians do not have people willing to work for them who could point them to where the game is. Consider Columbia’s Glenn Hubbard.... Now it is true that when Glenn writes “we economists have let the public debate drift to the opposite extremes of building walls and a laissez-faire optimism about change and markets making everything OK”, my immediate reaction is that of Tonto to the Lone Ranger in the old joke: “what is this ‘we’, kemosabe?” But that I regard Glenn and company as late to the party does not mean that they are not capable of bringing plenty of refreshments.... However, there are huge, huge problems in running a successful economic developmental state in the modern world...
It seems to me that the reason Red-State Successful Industrial Policy amounts to an oxymoron is the different Dynamics of liberal and right-wing governance. Right wing governing parties tend to endorse crony capitalist strategies. I.e A business friendly policy is one where our friends receive favorable treatment. Most liberals accept that a level playing field approach to economic policy provides a competitive market outcome. Consider the southern conservative politicians who insist on spending billions for NASA's Space Launch System when the private sector has already provided a more cost effective alternative.
That photo of the condo building looks a lot like some of the CGI of Sokovia in Age of Ultron.
Why yes, I did re-watch that today. I'm not sure the end result for FL will be much better, but it will take longer.
It seems to me that the reason Red-State Successful Industrial Policy amounts to an oxymoron is the different Dynamics of liberal and right-wing governance. Right wing governing parties tend to endorse crony capitalist strategies. I.e A business friendly policy is one where our friends receive favorable treatment. Most liberals accept that a level playing field approach to economic policy provides a competitive market outcome. Consider the southern conservative politicians who insist on spending billions for NASA's Space Launch System when the private sector has already provided a more cost effective alternative.