It’s always a difficult choice, selecting the winner of the annual Enlightened Economist prize. After pondering it for a few days, I’m going for Innovation in Real Places by Dan Breznitz: not everywhere can be like Silicon Valley, but that’s ok. There are other routes places can take, depending on where they are starting from.

An additional read is a recent article Prof Breznitz co-authored with Jane Gingrich in the Annual Review of Political Science, with some nice insights about the political economy of industrial policy.

I don’t know Prof Breznitz but if he comes across this and would like to take me up on the prize lunch at some point, it would be a pleasure to meet him.