Do We Need An Industrial Czar?
Robert M. Kaus, in Har-per's (Feb. 1983), P.O. Box 2620, Boulder,
Industrial Czar? Colo. 8032 1.
To critics of President Reagan's brand of free-market economics, pro- posals for a European-style national "industrial policy" have a growing appeal.
Most industrial policy advocates, writes Kaus, a Harper's editor, are either "preservationists" or "accelerationists." The first group, led New York investment banker Felix Rohatyn, worries most about the urban decline and...