Econ Comments & Analysis
Real Clear Markets | If We Love U.S. Jobs, We Must Love Tax Competition
It's not every day that a world leader asks you for something, let alone the Prime Minister of Great Britain. So in 2009, when Gordon Brown asked me what it would take to get Eli Lilly and Company to expand our research and manufacturing operations in the U.K., it left an impression: the British government valued the biopharmaceutical industry and was willing to compete for the jobs and research funding we bring.
