There are two core reasons for manufacturing decline denialism: fear of protectionism and blind faith in market forces.| www.policyarena.org
Only in the United States is gutting a world-leading firm seen as a policy win. No other government would be insane enough to attack its own national champions the way American antitrust enforcers do.| www.policyarena.org
If you think the PRC will allow the UK to expand exports of anything with any real strategic importance, you’re mistaken.| www.policyarena.org
Rostow’s model suggests that stage five is the ultimate destination. A better model sees no fixed stages and certainly no permanent peak, only a relentless push to go higher and higher.| www.policyarena.org
The United States should pursue a super-automation moonshot by establishing 50 to 100 demonstration factories that deploy state-of-the-art automation technologies.| www.policyarena.org