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This chapter sketches the stories of industrialization and industrial policies in different countries, giving support to the motto “industrialization was never an accident.” It looks at the USA, Japan, France, Russia, and Germany. In the USA, the rejection of the British colonial laws hindering industrialization forced the colonies to win their economic and political freedom. In France, policies supporting the manufacturing sector (before the Industrial Revolution in Britain) helped the Industrial Revolution in the country. In Russia, Germany, and Japan also deliberate industrial policies led to industrialization.

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  1. 1.

    Bogart (1918: 59).

  2. 2.

    Powell (1913).

  3. 3.

    Bogart (1918: 62–63).

  4. 4.

    Bogart (1918: 61).

  5. 5.

    Bogart (1918: 155).

  6. 6.

    Bogart (1918: 148).

  7. 7.

    Bogart (1918: 106–107).

  8. 8.

    Freeman and Soete (1997) and Chambers (1961).

  9. 9.

    List (1841: 11).

  10. 10.

    Houchins (1995).

  11. 11.

    Dower (2013).

  12. 12.

    Shulman (2015: 79).

  13. 13.

    Shulman (2015: 79–80).

  14. 14.

    Ohno (2006).

  15. 15.

    During the high-growth period in the next century, more slogans were minted such as obei ni oikose (‘overtake Europe and USA’).

  16. 16.

    Sugiyama (2004).

  17. 17.

    Komiya and Itoh (1988), Forsberg (1998: 190).

  18. 18.

    Yokoi (2004: 102).

  19. 19.

    Abe (2004).

  20. 20.

    Abe (2004) explains in detail the establishment of the Osaka Spinning Company.

  21. 21.

    Ohno (2000).

  22. 22.

    Ohno (2006: 80–81).

  23. 23.

    Ohno (2006).

  24. 24.

    Ohno (2006).

  25. 25.

    Breward (2012), Chrisman-Campbell (2015).

  26. 26.

    Chrisman-Campbell (2015).

  27. 27.

    Lucassen et al. (2008).

  28. 28.

    List (1841).

  29. 29.

    Israel (1989: 308–9).

  30. 30.

    Sargent (1899: 30).

  31. 31.

    Sargent (1899), Israel (1989: 308–9).

  32. 32.

    Smith (2006: 21).

  33. 33.

    Graves (1964).

  34. 34.

    Milward and Saul (2013: 370).

  35. 35.

    Milward and Saul (2013: 367–368).

  36. 36.

    Henderson (1975).

  37. 37.

    Henderson (1975: 75).

  38. 38.

    Henderson (1963: 3).

  39. 39.

    Freeman (1995), Landes (2003).

  40. 40.

    Hermitage Amsterdam (2016).

  41. 41.

    Synge (1903).

  42. 42.

    Hermitage Amsterdam (2016).

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Yülek, M.A. (2018). How Industrialized Nations Industrialized. In: How Nations Succeed: Manufacturing, Trade, Industrial Policy, and Economic Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0568-9_4

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