Mises Daily
Author:
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
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Can government do a better job than the market in any area of the economy? Consider: the tax-funded Human Genome Project, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. It held out the promise of mapping the entire structure of DNA, which in turn would lead to unparalleled medical breakthroughs. This program appeared ideally suited to government.