All real booms in history have to do with people in power stepping back and letting it happen. Even government sponsored R&D requires a free market to blossom.

All real booms in history have to do with people in power stepping back and letting it happen. Even government sponsored R&D requires a free market to blossom. Of course growth of truly creative forces requires a pull back of power. Put another way, you'll never get dynamic distributed growth through top-down decision making. Yes, they need to give up power. If they don't, the change won't happen.