Talk:Industrial policy

POV and citation issues
This article takes the POV that "Industrial policy" is basically protectionism. I don't think this a settled stance on the issue. In particular, one paragraph makes ascertains about the success of industrial policy and ties between industrial policy and immigration. This section seems like a mixed bag of original research, uncited and contestable information, and opinion, none of which should be in a Wikipedia article. I thinks this at least needs citations and these statements should be removed unless they are added soon.--Bkwillwm (talk) 04:27, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * the whole article is a bunch of unsourced assertions, original research, written from a left-wing point-of-view. Arronax50 (talk) 20:52, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Whine whine whine Mbroderick271 (talk) 09:49, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Industrial policies
The article needs a section on the different types of industrial policies: enclaves, polar or dual economies, import substitution, export promotion, export processing zones, etc.I'll work on it if I have the time. --Forich (talk) 00:57, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I might be a little over 10 years late in replying to this comment but this is a good suggestion. --Discott (talk) 01:38, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

American centric
This article seems to have been written as thought it were an article about industrial policy in the USA instead of generally. I think I will, at least for the mean time, break it up into country specific subcategories in the History section and expand on the industrial policy of other counties when I have the time. --Discott (talk) 23:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Xu 2010

 * Xu (2010). "Corrective and Strategic Industrial Policies".

Anyone mind if I delete it? Google gives me a complete blank. Only results are this article and cites mirroring it. ColaXtra (talk) 15:37, 27 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Have deleted it here. Feel free to discuss it with me, if you so wish. ColaXtra (talk) 15:39, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Heads up
Here is a quick heads up on some changes/additions I am thinking of making to this page. I am currently thinking of adding a section of the industrial policies, or at least the current historical discourse of their policies, of different countries around the world. I am currently thinking of focusing on England, Japan and Germany in particular (PR China is also likely) as I have a number of references lined up for them. I dont know as much about US industrial policy. I might add South African industrial policy as well but that is a big maybe as though would require a bit more research on my side.--Discott (talk) 01:37, 11 August 2019 (UTC)


 * That would be a welcome change, the current article is too American-centric and seems to conflate "industrial policy" with reactive "interventionism" whereas I thought industrial policies were more akin to proactive yet indirect economic planning under a market economy framework. The East Asian tiger economies, People's Republic of China, Singapore, Japan and France until the 1980s all come to mind when I think of "industrial policy", not simple intervention/regulation inherent to all economies. - Battlecry 09:06, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

POV
I don't think a criticism section should be presenting criticisms in a tone of voice that treats them as settled fact. Eldomtom2 (talk) 19:29, 1 May 2023 (UTC)


 * What type of tone should it take? Outside of politics, economists generally discourage the sort of "industrial policies" where the main objective is to boost domestic production. It's one thing for a government to invest in industries, but quite another for a government to invest in industries with the stipulation that companies must produce locally. Even open-ended subsidies encouraging local production (eg Biden policies) are widely seen as self-defeating outside politics. Jonathan f1 (talk) 16:25, 8 June 2024 (UTC)