Thread by @AmirKhaleqi

"few in the late 20th supposed it was possible to get trash collection or fire projection privately, both having been socialized in the late 19th century, until it was tried. In the Netherlands the postal service has been successfully privatized, even though for reasons of State

security the post worldwide had been a State monopoly for hundreds of years".

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But leaping into the Supply Chain Fallacy, as Mazzucato does with both feet, makes it easy in modern circumstances of the massive State to conclude that the entrepreneurship of the State is necessary all over the place. One looks down the supply chain of any innovation for any

instance of State action, then one assigns “cause” to the instance (without considering private substitutes as counterfactuals), and concludes triumphantly that the State rules. It’s like saying that, because the road outside Google’s office in Mountain View was built by the city

, the city of Mountain View caused the search engine.