Stephen Chaudoin and Michael-David Mangini (presenter) “Dependence, Chokepoints, and Robots”
Abstract: Policymakers are obsessed with how trade flows create dependencies and vulnerabilities. They’ve spent billions of dollars on subsidies and deployed industrial policy to decrease their foreign dependence and remove chokepoint vulnerabilities that their adversaries could exploit. Where are these vulnerabilities? Have they become more concentrated in chokepoints over time? Will industrial policy to reshore production […]