Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129054 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIFO Working Papers No. 505
Publisher: 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna
Abstract: 
This paper elaborates a dynamic rationale of industrial policy, focusing on how to strengthen the socio-economic system's ability to evolve, i.e., how to achieve high real income together with qualitative change. It highlights that the ubiquitous rationalities of failure, be it of markets, governments, or systems, are rooted in a peculiar habit of accepting hypothetical perfect states as normative benchmarks. In contrast, a dynamic logic of intervention should start from the question, what the system aims to accomplish. Combining the structuralist ontology of micro, meso and macro with the functional principles of evolutionary change, the paper proposes a general typology of economic policies based on their respective contributions to the system's ability to evolve.
Subjects: 
Industrial policy
competitiveness
evolutionary economics
structural change
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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