Ricardo Hausmann, the economics professor leading Harvard University’s Growth Lab, knows a thing or two about how a country’s economy can collapse.

He was, after all, minister of planning in Venezuela from 1992 to 1993, six years before the election of Hugo Chávez, who imposed economically ruinous populist measures, including price controls and nationalising banks...

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