Back then, America’s advocates of industrial policy – often called “Atari Democrats,” after the long since eclipsed maker of early computer games – didn’t even get their facts straight about Japan. While there was a “fifth generation” computer project and one on HDTV, the vast bulk of Japanese subsidies went not to new technologies, but to old-line, high-employment industries like agriculture, mining, and heavy manufacturing.
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