Industrial Policy and the Great Divergence
梳理了19世纪长期内政府通过产业政策塑造经济的相关研究,评估了这些政策对工业化的影响,并指出该领域仍有诸多问题待探索。
We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long nineteenth century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. States deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at fostering industrialization. A thin but growing literature has started to evaluate the economic effects of these policies, but many questions remain open for study.