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Government: Enemy of innovation? Maybe not…..

There’s no doubt that our robust, free-market economy has spurred a tremendous amount of private-sector innovation in technology, productivity and many other areas that has improved our quality of life and contributed to our nation’s prosperity.

But, despite the claims of some critics, it turns out that the government also has played a critical role in fostering cutting-edge advances in the economy, including some of the most far-reaching and influential.

That under-appreciated history is discussed in a recent consideration of two books examining the role of the public and private sectors in our entrepreneurial and capitalist economy. Click here to read about it in the New York Review of Books.