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

Name: Make It in America, Updated Edition The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy
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ISBN: 9781118199626

ISBN-10: 1118199626

ISBN-13: 9781118199626

Edition: 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Andrew Liveris, Andrew N. Liveris

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America used to define itself by the things it built. We designed and produced the world's most important innovations, and in doing so, created a vibrant manufacturing sector that built the middle class. We manufactured our way to the top and became the undisputed economic leader among all nations. But over the last several decades, and especially in the last ten years, the sector that was America's great pride has eroded, costing millions of jobs and putting our long-term prosperity at risk. Now, as we struggle to recover from the worst recession in generations, our only chance to turn things around is to revive the American manufacturing sector—and to revolutionize it. In MAKE IT IN…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.572
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


Epilogue


Bibliography


About the Author


About The Dow Chemical Company


Index