Policies for Competitiveness: Comparing Business-Government Relationships in the Golden Age of Capitalism / Edition 1

by Hideaki Miyajima, Takeo Kikkawa, Takashi Hikino

Overview

This book focuses on the so-called 'Golden Age of Capitalism' the 1950s and 1960s, and studying prime-mover countries (the US and the UK), followers (Germany, France, and Italy), and latecomers (Japan and Korea). It addresses the crucial questions to be asked; what appropriate roles should government be assigned, and which government actions are useful public policy and which represent unnecessary and harmful intervention?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198293231
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	09/23/1999
Series:	Fuji Conference Series , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.91(d)
Lexile:	1430L (what's this?)

About the Author

Hideaki Miyajima is Professor at the School of Commerce, Waseda University, Japan.

Takeo Kikkawa is Professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Takashi Hikino is at the School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan.

Table of Contents

Part I: Japan's Experience in Industrial Policy: A General Overview
Industrial Policy and Japan's International Competitiveness, Takeo Kikkawa and Takashi Hikino
Regulatory Frameworks, Government Intervention and Investment in Post-War Japan, Hideaki Miyajima
Part II: Latecomers: Influential Industrial Policy and Competitiveness
Industrial Policy and the Development of Synthetic Fibre Industry, Tsuneo Suzuki
Government and Business in Japan's General Purpose Computer Industry, Seishi Nakamura
Early Post-War Industrial Policy in Emerging Economics, Alice H. Amsden
Part III: Prime Movers: Antitrust Policy with Insignificant Industrial Policy
Post-War US Antitrust Policy, Corporate Strategy and International Competitiveness, William H. Becker
Competition and Industrial Policy in Britain, 1945-73, Jim D. Tomlinson
Regulation American Style, 1933-89, Richard H. K. Vietor
Part IV: Follower: Insignificant Antitrust Policy with Little Influence of Competitiveness on Competitiveness
The State and Enterprise in the German Economy after the Second World War, Werner Plumpe
Coherence and Limitations of the French Industrial Policy during the Boom Period, Philippe Mioche
Harmful of Irrelevant? Italian Industrial Policy, 1945-73, Giovanni Federico