Forging industrial policy: the United States, Britain, and France in the railway age

Why do nations pursue such different industrial policy strategies today? The United States enforces market competition and eschews state leadership in virtually every industry. Meanwhile, French state technocrats orchestrate sectoral growth from above, and Britain bolsters firms against interference...

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1. Verfasser: Dobbin, Frank 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 1994
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:Why do nations pursue such different industrial policy strategies today? The United States enforces market competition and eschews state leadership in virtually every industry. Meanwhile, French state technocrats orchestrate sectoral growth from above, and Britain bolsters firms against interference from both markets and state officials
Political scientists generally explain industrial policy choices by interest-group preferences, but why then do groups in America always win market-oriented policies? Economists generally explain industrial policy choices by the functional needs of industry, but why then do British industries always need firm autonomy
In Forging Industrial Policy, Frank Dobbin traces the evolution of nineteenth-century policies governing one of the first modernizing industries - the railroads. To organize their emergent industrial economies, nations employed principles found in political institutions. The United States used the principle of community self-determination to give municipalities responsibility for promoting railroads
Beschreibung:XII, 262 S.
ISBN:0521451213

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