Stories by RetiredRichard

California (and the Rest of America) Can't Build Like USA's Corps of Engineers

Japanese Cosmetics and Did You Know China Has an Industrial Policy for Lipstick?

Why Are There So Many Car Companies in China and Japan vs. the US?

State/Local Budgets and Bureaucratic Rules Make Good Government Impossible

Evolution Keeps Inventing Crab (So Does Industrial Policy): OWS and Japan's MRIs

Pentagon's Best Schools and Safest Nuclear Program and the Expanse

Made in China 2025 Improved Robot Quality. Core Components Still Come from Japan

China's AI Industrial Policy

Reviving Dead Malls and Dying Colleges: 2 Successful Cases of Adaptive Reuse

Singapore's Fragmented Ownership, Japan's Rural Revival,& Korea's Material Limit

Management Cybernetics Basics for Urbanists and YIMBYs

Does Getting Rid of Zoning Increase Housing Supply and Cut Housing Costs?

Blitzrobotik

Work Simplification and the History of Government Efficiency and Management

Forking Work Simplification – Let's Bring Back Eisenhower's Process Improvement

Fast internet fuels more marriages (in Spain)

A Modest Proposal – Train Local YIMBY (and Others) Groups in Process Improvement

Miyazaki's Right: Local Governments Boost Birthrates by Investing in Families

America can beat China on energy

Singapore's fertility crisis: Could flexible and remote work be the answer?

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