Industrial Policy in America. Breaking the taboo

In contrast to what observers have frequently argued, this book suggests that the concept od industrial policy is not alien to the American past and present. The debate on this topic in the US has always been full of contradictory rhetoric and policy practices, and the authors therefore acknowledge a need to rethink the traditional antagonist positions. Contemporary markets continue to demand to be fixed by government policies, and governments continue to show how fixing-the-market policies might fail. The conclusion is that the future of industrial policy is about how tomake both markets and governments better in their functioning, but that the real goal for industrial policy is to make better market and better government policies consistent with the goal of building a better society