But... there's a clear policy angle here? There's no need to navel gaze about culture on this. If you follow the same policies that other major powers followed

But... there's a clear policy angle here? There's no need to navel gaze about culture on this. If you follow the same policies that other major powers followed when they were growing (protectionism + heavy coordination between government and large coorporations) you will find growth. To be honest I feel so little empathy from this author and their post. I mean there's so much comprehensive studying about the american health care market. The US gov't has spent 50 years staring at it in trying to make it less of a nightmare! He poses the question of quantifying worker productivity in knowledge economies as if this hasn't been a topic of discussion and like 10 iterations for the past 50 years. He talks about a lack of criticism of institutions, when there are _centuries_ of criticism on various arms of the government and how they function. Political science is a whole branch of study! I just get the vibe that this person almost never actually reads books, and just reads pop science takes on economics all day. I mean he's probably a major player in economics but I guess that's kinda the point.