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Previous chapters have the clear message that the materials industry is subjected to increasing pressures and regulations from the socio-political arena. This immediately brings up the question as to what extent a national materials policy, including specific guidelines and regulations, is possible or even desirable. We have to keep in mind that from the supply of basic resources, through the whole materials cycle, to the finished products and their after-use patterns, market forces are the over-riding element and have been successful in creating many self-regulating mechanisms. Therefore, up to now, most leaders of industry and many in government agree that the rule should be: “Keep the free market forces intact wherever possible or restrain them in the form of guidelines and keep governmental interference to a bare minimum.”
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Altenpohl, D.G. (1980). Key Issues for Technology Planning and Assessment. In: Materials in World Perspective. MRE Materials Research and Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81453-2_4
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