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Daily Archive for March 3rd, 2010

… or if we just had better regulation, the world would be perfect! Oops, try again. The FAA runs air traffic in the U.S.

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Here is a story about government industrial policy as told by Burt Folsom in his wonderful, Myth of the Robber Barons. This one is about the government’s involvement in the steel industry around WWI. In 1916, then, Daniels and Tillman began the campaign to convince Congress to spend $11 million for an armour factory. In […]

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