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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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JS Tan
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Grace Shao
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Pluralism vs corporatism: why countries innovate differently
Some political systems are better at creative destruction. Others are better at creative accumulation.
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JS Tan
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Cars and Clouds in 2025
Some reflections on 2024 and what's to come in the new year
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JS Tan

December 2024

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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JS Tan
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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JS Tan
Can Services Drive Growth?
ICT technologies promise to transform services—but can it replace manufacturing as a new growth engine?
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JS Tan

November 2024

Varieties of Green Growth Policies
Green growth policies have taken many forms. Some hold more promise than others
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JS Tan
Can China do industrial policy efficiently?
Not really. But that hasn’t stopped China from doing it anyway.
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JS Tan
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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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JS Tan
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