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The Lost Art of State Intervention

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Nicolas Colin
Feb 14, 2017
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How the consensus around state intervention eroded over time

It took the crisis of the 1930s for business, academic and political elites to come together in favor of a more active government in social and economic matters. Only the state could protect businesses and individuals against the risks that came with the more volatile Fordist economy. But starting in the 1970s, the aspirations for individual emancipation together with the influence of conservative economists gave rise to a new context more adverse to state intervention.

  • DISCOVER HOW the volatility of consumer markets led to state intervention

  • FIND OUT how Hayek and Friedman provided laissez-faire with a new intellectual framework

How bureaucracy reached the point of irrelevance

For a long time, citizens had to make do with low-quality state interventions because that was the price to pay for large-scale affordability. But eventually the state bureaucracy’s pyramid model became less effective: the 1970s economic crisis and tax rev…

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