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Rival Capitalists: Death in a Sicilian Landscape

Rival Capitalists: Death in a Sicilian Landscape

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Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy

Business GeneralInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0801499496
ISBN13: 9780801499494
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Nov 5 1992
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.13 Depth: 9.31
Language: English

Great Britain, France, Germany, and Japan. Surveying the development of the steel, automobile, and semiconductor industries in each of these countries, Jeffrey A. Hart illuminates the role of national policy in a changing world.

Hart describes the global structure of production and consumption in the five major capitalist countries and offers a rich comparative history of their industrial policymaking. He concludes that variations in statesocietal arrangements--and the impact these differences have on the creation and diffusion of new technologies--provide the best explanation for divergences in international competitiveness. In Japan, state and business are allied, but labor is marginalized, whereas in Germany, labor and business are allied, and the state is decentralized. Yet both countries have become increasingly competitive because they have developed institutional mechanisms for technology diffusion. France's state-led system, in contrast, is linked with only moderate competitiveness. The decline of competitiveness in the United States and Britain, Hart concludes, may be attributed to state-societal arrangements that have allowed one actor-labor in Britain, business in the United States-to dominate policymaking.

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