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What governments can do to support their economies: the case for a strategic econsystem

After the financial crisis, how can governments support their economies by coordinating public instruments for trade, innovation and finance as one strategic system?

Henning Meyer and Andreas Klasen · Global Policy 4(S1), 1–9 · 2013

Abstract

Written in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the article argues that the crisis exposed structural weaknesses in the world economy, from a self-referential financial sector to the fragility of the euro. It makes the case for governments to support their economies through a strategic ‘econsystem’: a coordinated set of public instruments rather than isolated measures.

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