How do you make car companies innovate? Regulate them

Friday, September 27, 2013 - 04:30 in Mathematics & Economics

It's become an axiom of free market economies that governments should just keep their hands off business. But the tough new fuel-economy directives issued by the U.S. (and Canada) have created a renaissance in car company R&D and prove regulation works, Don Pittis writes.

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