Références investissements privés/publics?

[Yozz]

Un copain a besoin de références (en anglais uniquement) sur les différences entre investissements publics et privés, et ce qui fait que les uns réussissent et les autres ratent. Comme il y a des grands spécialistes sur le forum, je suis sûr qu'ils auront plein de conseils de lecture (web ou papier, tout est bon à prendre).

Je vous poste sa description:

" I would like any papers/references dealing specifically with industrial/technological research and product development investment - I would like to know on average how many such big projects would be considered failures by those who set them up. I'd be keen to know the proportion of private investment verses govt. investment and proportion thereof that succeed or fail. Of particular interest to me is whether fully govt. lead large projects are more prone to failure (one can think of the UK air ship project between the wars) or at least becoming excessively expensive in order to achieve their goal (one can think of the A-Bomb development in WW II or the space shuttle project). Now of course the A-Bomb and space shuttle are not really commercial products and never had an overtly commercial perspective and hence one can imagine a community being more forgiving of highly expensive projects - but the development of something primarily commercial - for the economic benefit of EC countries for example, one must be much more skeptical of centrally planned projects.

Finally and related - references to big projects centrally planned - (obviously the USSR as an economy has many examples) verses privately financed projects that are typically the vision of a small (even single person) group who can raise finance to complete the task (one may think of Boeing 747 development, which unlike the new Air Bus was truly innovative at the time - and compare that with British/French development of Concorde). Now I am not suggesting that private investment will always turn out successful, but somehow in history they collectively work together to make progress despite individual projects that fail. In either case, they are more robust against a finicky government that are likely to pull out of very promising projects at the first sign of it going wrong (e.g. UK leaning trains and UK attempts to break sound barrier).

Anyway, these are the things going through my mind regarding economic and political background but I need more good references if you can please help."

Merci pour votre aide

[Nicolas Luxivor]

Un copain a besoin de références (en anglais uniquement) sur les différences entre investissements publics et privés, et ce qui fait que les uns réussissent et les autres ratent.

Je ne sais pas si cela peut l'aider… Mais une comparaison du pouvoir d'achat dans chacun des pays rapporté à l'intervention du gouvernement dans l'économie:

GDP per Capita

THE SIZE AND FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Je ne sais pas si c'est le sujet mais en tout cas c'est un des éléments à prendre en compte.

Autre point, la subvention aux USA et en France ne se comparent pas vraiment. La subvention en France est très souvent en balance avec l'adoption de la philosophie étatiste. Alors qu'aux USA, les conditions d'attribution de la subvention sont bien plus respectueuses des contraintes du marché.

[Yozz]

En fait c'est plus centré autour de pourquoi un projet de recherche sponsorisé par l'Etat n'aboutit à rien alors que le privé est productif. Notamment (mais pas exclusivement) en ICT. Typiquement, google vs le moteur de recherche européen ou quoi. C'est lié à l'innovation, la recherche et les nouveaux produits.

[Nicolas Luxivor]

En fait c'est plus centré autour de pourquoi un projet de recherche sponsorisé par l'Etat n'aboutit à rien alors que le privé est productif. Notamment (mais pas exclusivement) en ICT. Typiquement, google vs le moteur de recherche européen ou quoi. C'est lié à l'innovation, la recherche et les nouveaux produits.

Alors c'est plus facile car ton exemple est criant: Google Print existe, l'autre pas.

[xara]

Un copain a besoin de références (en anglais uniquement) sur les différences entre investissements publics et privés, et ce qui fait que les uns réussissent et les autres ratent. Comme il y a des grands spécialistes sur le forum, je suis sûr qu'ils auront plein de conseils de lecture (web ou papier, tout est bon à prendre).

Je vous poste sa description:

" I would like any papers/references dealing specifically with industrial/technological research and product development investment - I would like to know on average how many such big projects would be considered failures by those who set them up. I'd be keen to know the proportion of private investment verses govt. investment and proportion thereof that succeed or fail. Of particular interest to me is whether fully govt. lead large projects are more prone to failure (one can think of the UK air ship project between the wars) or at least becoming excessively expensive in order to achieve their goal (one can think of the A-Bomb development in WW II or the space shuttle project). Now of course the A-Bomb and space shuttle are not really commercial products and never had an overtly commercial perspective and hence one can imagine a community being more forgiving of highly expensive projects - but the development of something primarily commercial - for the economic benefit of EC countries for example, one must be much more skeptical of centrally planned projects.

Finally and related - references to big projects centrally planned - (obviously the USSR as an economy has many examples) verses privately financed projects that are typically the vision of a small (even single person) group who can raise finance to complete the task (one may think of Boeing 747 development, which unlike the new Air Bus was truly innovative at the time - and compare that with British/French development of Concorde). Now I am not suggesting that private investment will always turn out successful, but somehow in history they collectively work together to make progress despite individual projects that fail. In either case, they are more robust against a finicky government that are likely to pull out of very promising projects at the first sign of it going wrong (e.g. UK leaning trains and UK attempts to break sound barrier).

Anyway, these are the things going through my mind regarding economic and political background but I need more good references if you can please help."

Merci pour votre aide

Food for thought: sur l'idée que la catégorie "investissement" n'a pas de sens dans le cas des dépenses publiques: Government Produces Nothing, Ever par Wladimir Kraus