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Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry

2025-08-06 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·36m 51s ·by NPR
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LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here . Traditional economics says the market is guided by the forces of supply and demand. Customers decide what they want to buy, and private enterprise responds to that need. So what makes government think that it’s smarter than capitalism? Why offer tax