Policies for Competitiveness

Comparing Business-Government Relationships in the Golden Age of Capitalism
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-829323-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 643 g

All over the world proactive public policy in business is now under siege. Economists and policy-makers claim that the era of `Big Government' is over. However, nobody denies the fact that government has historically played a critical role in modern economic development. Given the profound changes of public policy agendas, this is an appropriate time to review the dynamic interaction between government policies and industrial developments from an international and historical perspective.

Focusing 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), Competing Policies for Competitiveness 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? The book also attempts to utilize the Japanese case as an analytical reference against which experiences of other economies are examined.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miyajima, Hideaki

Kikkawa, Takeo

Hikino, Takashi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Geschäftswettbewerb
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Mikroökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Japan's Experience in Industrial Policy: A General Overview

- Industrial Policy and Japan's International Competitiveness

- Regulatory Frameworks, Government Intervention and Investment in Post-War Japan

- Part II: Latecomers: Influential Industrial Policy and Competitiveness

- Industrial Policy and the Development of Synthetic Fibre Industry

- Government and Business in Japan's General Purpose Computer Industry

- Early Post-War Industrial Policy in Emerging Economics

- Part III: Prime Movers: Antitrust Policy with Insignificant Industrial Policy

- Post-War US Antitrust Policy, Corporate Strategy and International Competitiveness

- Competition and Industrial Policy in Britain, 1945-73

- Regulation American Style, 1933-89

- 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

- Coherence and Limitations of the French Industrial Policy during the Boom Period

- Harmful or Irrelevant? Italian Industrial Policy, 1945-73

Über Autor(innen)

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.