Make It in America The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy

Name: Make It in America The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy
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ISBN: 9780470930229

ISBN-10: 0470930225

ISBN-13: 9780470930229

Edition: 2011

Authors: Andrew Liveris

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With all the push for clean energy, one would think that there are clean energy manufacturers in the U.S. poised to soar and make the solar panels, windmills, and other tools that will reduce the consumption of dirty fuels. Sadly, with the loss of the U.S. manufacturing base, not only do we not make clean energy tools in the U.S., increasingly the industries of the future - such as clean energy firms - aren't even U.S. based companies! From leading economists such as Robert Reich to political pundits, the view on manufacturing is that it's over and the U.S. is in the painful process of moving toward a service-based and knowledge economy. With industries such as healthcare and Facebook…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/16/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.80" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Rise and Fall


How We Fell Out of Love with Manufacturing


The Multiplier Effect


Manufacturing Tomorrow


Surviving the Crisis


A Tale of Two Nations



Separating What Can't Be Separated


The Truth about the Manufacturing Crisis


Adding Value the Only Way We Can


Trying to Survive on Ideas Alone


Where Manufacturing Goes, the Ideas Follow



Fighting Offshoring


Should I Stay or Should I Go?


It Isn't What You Think


Taxing Problems


Funding the Future


Regulating Our Way into a Muddle


Trading Our Way to Prosperity



Energy Drives the World


A Big Energy Bill, and Not Just for Power


The New New


Germany's Green Miracle


China's Green Revolution


America Can't Compete



Building Tomorrow


Education: "A Permanent National Recession"


Developing the Right Skills for the New Workplace


Preventing a Worker Shortage


What America Doesn't Understand That Other Nations Do


The Tortoise and the Hare


A New Foundation of Infrastructure


Funding the Future



Built to Compete


An Ambitious Agenda


Changing the Way We Tax


National Incentive Strategy


Regulatory Policy


Everyone Needs Good Trading Partners



The Long Game


The Human Element: Education and Immigration


Innovation and Competitiveness



The Fork in the Road


Bibliography


About the Author


About the Dow Chemical Company


Index