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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by EGreg on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:17PM (#30142285)
“The bureaucracy” is doing a lot of work there

THIS is what I want to hear more about. How was all this coordination done? Solving collective action problems is what government is supposed to do… was this a command economy, central planning, or some sort of intiative like we have now with the new “security best practices imperatives” that will use the infrastructure bill and standardize what small vendors will deliver?

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Re:Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy by dnautics on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:20PM (#30142810)
I don't necessarily think that government's job is to "solve collective action problems" (there are plenty of alternatives, actually free markets themselves are a solution to the collective action problem of "what should the price of X be") -- but if it's going to doit, it should be held to a high standard of effectiveness.
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