Losing Time: The Industrial Policy Debate

by Otis L. Graham Jr.

Book Overview

Japan has had one since before the Pacific War. Germany has always had one. Britain has had one after another. Shouldn't the United States get one?

Though hotly debated throughout the 1980s, this was the wrong question, leading to years of delay and confusion. The United States already had an Industrial Policy, said Otis Graham, but one which was uncoordinated and often harmful. This policy morass, which continued in the 1990s under George...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674539354
• ISBN13: 9780674539358
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"