Tyler Cowen, Columnist

Germany Is the Silicon Valley of Political Innovation

If Trump is going to disrupt world order, Merkel and the Germans are well-positioned to respond.

May 30, 2017 at 4:54 PM UTC

Tyler Cowen is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of economics at George Mason University and host of the Marginal Revolution blog.

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One of the more significant quotations of last week came from President Donald Trump, when he reportedly described the Germans as “bad, very bad,” referring to their automobile exports. He returned to the theme Tuesday:

Another take on Germany, articulated by many economists and technology observers, is that the country has quality manufacturing but hasn’t been very innovative in other sectors, and is thus a disappointment.