Politicians promise "economic patriotism" and fear de-industrialisation. State-owned giants such as EDF, the electric-power utility, are considered national treasures, as British Steel and British Coal once were.
The tremors at the Rajasthan testing ground must have set Toynbee spinning.Much Indian writing about India dwells today on the gulf between the vision of its founders and what their country has become not that Gandhi and Nehru had the same vision: Gandhi had no use for industrialisation or the state, both of which the westernised Nehru thought indispensable.
Playford was known for his lack of funding for education, regarding it as a distraction from the industrialisation of the state.
Playford saw a modern road transport system as crucial to continuing the industrialisation of the state, and motor vehicle registrations, which had increased by a factor of 50 since the end of the war, required road expansion.
In the 1960s and 1970s governments tried to foster industrialisation through tariff protection, state ownership and heavily subsidised credit.
Industrialisation, democratisation and nation building framed the politics of the welfare state in the 20th century.
Singapore embodies a peculiar mix of the free market, state-led industrialisation and paternalism.
Latin America took state-led industrialisation behind tariff barriers to extremes, financing it with debt when the oil-price rises of the 1970s slowed the world economy.
Promoted by economists like Gunnar Myrdal, Raul Prebisch and Walt Rostow, this model aimed to modernise poor countries through an accelerated, state-led industrialisation process based on strategies such as: central planning, infrastructure development, selective subsidies, public ownership, price controls, trade tariffs and labour regulations.
There Ethiopians imbibe the gospel of industrialisation overseen by a strong state that exerts tight control over an ethnically diverse population with a history of strife.But all is not well in the relationship.
While Playford was known for his use of price controls to restrain the price of living and therefore attract blue-collar workers to settle in the state and fuel industrialisation, South Australia also lagged behind in consumer protection laws in regards to quality control.
