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American Manufacturing in a Global Market

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Editors:
  1. Kenneth W. Chilton
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  2. Melinda E. Warren
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  3. Murray L. Weidenbaum

    1. Center for the Study of American Business, Washington University, St. Louis, USA

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Effects of public policy on manufacturing’s future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Government and Manufacturing: “Don’t Just Stand There, Undo Something”

      • Murray Weidenbaum
      Pages 3-7

    3. Public Policy and Manufacturing: Back to Basics

      • Robert Eisner
      Pages 9-16

    4. What Do Economic Statistics Tell Us About Manufacturing’s Future?

      • Robert Ortner
      Pages 17-23

    5. What Should Be Done for Manufacturing?

      • Richard McKenzie
      Pages 25-35

    6. How to Rebuild America

      • Fred Branfman
      Pages 37-44

    7. Antitrust Policy and American Industrial Competitiveness

      • Thomas DiLorenzo
      Pages 45-54

  3. Multinational firms and global markets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. To Compete Globally, American Firms Must Know Their Customers

      • Kenneth Butterworth
      Pages 57-61

    3. The Changing Aerospace Marketplace

      • John McDonnell
      Pages 63-67

    4. Joint Ventures: The Challenge of Cooperation

      • Yoshito Tokumitsu
      Pages 69-72

    5. American Manufacturing in the 1990s: The Adjustment Challenge

      • Robert Lawrence
      Pages 73-96

  4. Education’s restructuring task

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Increasing Competition in U.S. Education

      • Dwight Lee
      Pages 99-106

    3. What Is the Role of Business in Education?

      • Jeanne Allen
      Pages 107-112

    4. Targeting Education Reforms to Do the Most Good

      • Curtis Plott
      Pages 113-119

    5. A Higher Education Agenda for Manufacturing Management

      • Dean Kropp
      Pages 121-125

  5. Organizing for success

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Manufacturing Competitiveness Requires More Than Downsizing

      • Jewell Westerman
      Pages 129-133
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About this book

The health of American manufacturing has been a cause of real concern during the 1980s. Foreign competition, hostile takeovers, new technologies and a host of other factors have caused dramatic changes in this key sector of the American economy. Many ob­ servers of this process of change are singing the "rust belt blues," consigning U.S. manufacturing greatness to the history books. In April 1986, the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University issued a study by its director, Dr. Murray L. Weidenbaum, which challenged this perception of American manu­ facturing's future. The report, entitled Learning to Compete, pointed to a variety of positive developments resulting from the ad­ versity faced by American firms in the first half of the decade: pro­ ducers had improved quality and productivity, reduced costs, and in­ creased emphasis on R&D. In November 1988, as a logical extension of this research, the Center held a conference on American Manufacturing in the 1990s. Focusing on American responses to the changing global competitive environment, this conference brought together the practical experi­ ence of business professionals and the more detached views of aca­ demic and media experts. In a day and a half of meetings, encompassing six separate ses­ sions, a luncheon address and an after-dinner debate, conference participants assembled an extensive profile on the state of U.S.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for the Study of American Business, Washington University, St. Louis, USA

    Murray L. Weidenbaum

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: American Manufacturing in a Global Market

  • Editors: Kenneth W. Chilton, Melinda E. Warren, Murray L. Weidenbaum

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2516-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9051-0Published: 30 November 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7636-4Published: 10 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2516-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 214

  • Topics: Industrial Organization, Economic Policy, Operations Management

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