industries in order to explain contemporary rationalization and restructuring in manufacturing. …

In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and … that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy. Smil argues that no … advanced economy can prosper without a strong, innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates. Reversing a famous …

How can American manufacturing recapture its former dominance in the globalized industrial economy? In Worker … manufacturing processes (as well as a monetary share of the savings from productivity gains). Stahl develops this new Theory of … of lean manufacturing made famous by Toyota with genuine worker empowerment unlike anything at Toyota, Worker Leadership …

South Korea's technological future. …

rates; the stochastic dimension of the American economy; the role of technology as a source of economic fluctuations; and …

. The first three chapters provide an overview of the communication system in technology, present the author's research … architects and managers in the design of new R & D facilities and complexes. …

was the rise of information technology. The new technology has had such a significant impact on the economy that "the new … questions about the effects of information technology on various aspects of the economy. The topics include the relationship …

technology to opportunistic exploitation of relationship specificity. Economists working on macroeconomics, development, growth …

technology and preferences, such as fixed input-output coefficients. These assumptions are contradicted by the massive evidence … guidelines for future policy formation. Volume 2: Energy, the Environment, and Economic Growth presents a new econometric general …