Since leaving office in 1999 after a term as Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has worked with Israeli high-tech companies, read widely and traveled the world seeking to understand why some economies flourished while others floundered. In his travels he came across the writings of Roger Douglas, a New Zealand politician who transformed his nation's economy in the 3 980s with what boils clown to a single transformative idea now known as Rogernomics: Economic reforms should be bundled together so that individuals hurt by some reforms—say, elimination of farm subsidies—are helped by others. Speed is crucial. "Don't blink or wobble," Douglas warned.
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