Ohio to spend $1.4 billion to attract jobs. Will it work?

A USA TODAY review of historical data indicates that Ohio launched what appears to be the biggest intervention in the private economy by a state government since the Great Depression. Ohio’s attempt to revive its economy is a real-life case of how states act as a laboratory of democracy and will test a provocative economic question: Can government direct the economy into the future, or is that best done by a free market?   Full article.