Paul Mueller of Civitas Outlook magazine discusses how industrial policy is conflated with successful pro-growth, pro-market agendas. This mistake obscures tensions regarding market allocation and firm discipline.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
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| 0:20.0 | This is John Batchel, speaking with Professor Paul Mueller of the Civitas Outlook |
| 0:25.8 | magazine, reviewing a new book about industrial policy recommending it for America from |
| 0:31.9 | the economists at Fasdow and Fletcher. However, there is a confusion, and Paul helps us sort it out here |
| 0:40.9 | between industrial policy, which has a reputation of being inefficient, misallocating funds, |
| 0:47.8 | and often a failure. And pro-growth, which is always a success, is Paul Mueller, writing at Civitas Outlook |
| 0:56.0 | for Civitas Institute. |
| 0:59.0 | Industrial policy, question mark. |
| 1:02.5 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:04.8 | It's certainly related for sure, |
| 1:06.4 | and the desire to re-shore various kinds of industries, chip manufacturing, and others, is part of this |
| 1:13.5 | industrial policy. I think part of the draw of industrial policy today is that it's conflated |
| 1:21.1 | with other things that are good and important. So part of why I think the Trump administration's |
| 1:27.4 | sort of aggressive industrial |
| 1:28.7 | policy has been embraced in many ways is because in other regards, the Trump administration |
| 1:34.3 | is very pro-business, in contrast to the previous administration. They want to pull fossil fuels |
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