Why We Don't Need Government Funding for "Moonshots"

Why We Don’t Need Government Funding for “Moonshots”

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Tags: Entrepreneurship, Bureaucracy and Regulation, Economic Policy, Global Economy, Protectionism and Free Trade

03/15/2024 Robert P. Murphy Christian Sandström

Christian Sandström is a Swedish economist who joins Bob to discuss his new (co-edited) book, which makes the case that massive government funding projects aren’t necessary to promote science or industrial growth.

Dr. Sandströmm’s Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy: Mises.org/HAP439a

Human Action Podcast listeners can get a free copy of Dr. Guido Hülsmann’s How Inflation Destroys Civilization: Mises.org/HAPodFree

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