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You didn’t invent that! Or deflating entrepreneurship and on historical explanations

13 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics

Consider the following sentences

Without the State/Elon Musk we would have no iPhone/SpaceX
The role of the State/Elon Musk was crucial for the success of the iPhone/SpaceX
The State/Elon Musk played a very important role in the development of the iPhone/SpaceX
The State/Elon Musk were one of the factors that played a role in the development of the iPhone/SpaceX
The State/Elon Musk played a minor role role the development of the iPhone/SpaceX
The State/Elon Musk had nothing to do with the development of the iPhone/SpaceX

Full disclosure: I’m an Elon Musk fan and I don’t own nor consider owning in the future any Apple products.

Here we have an ordering of different causal attributions for the State inventing the iPhone and Elon Musk creating SpaceX (yes, NASA played a role). Mazzucato seems to think that for the iPhone case, 1 or 2 are true. I think 3-4 are more likely. For…

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