This note, while acknowledging the reality of deindustrialization, addresses the question of whether the perceptions of the American public in regard to the matter have been exaggerated relative to the actuality of deindustrialization as evidenced in the statistics. Acknowledging the possibility...

This working paper uses the available Bureau of Economic Analysis data on value added in the U.S. state of Michigan to develop a picture of its deindustrialization. This details the protracted and severe decline in the state's output of heavy industrial durables, particularly those relevant to...

This note offers a brief consideration of the quantitative data regarding U.S. manufacturing's net output (i.e. "value added") in aggregate and per capita terms, and shows that while some of the relevant data give an impression of strength, the long-term trend with regard to output, assets and...

An examination of the manufacturing output of Britain and the U.S. (the two advanced industrial countries most associated with neoliberalism and "the Anglo-Saxon model") over time shows striking parallelism but also striking differences. In particular an examination of United Nations' statistics...

This note examines the statistical data on overall manufacturing employment and manufacturing value added in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metropolitan area, in conjunction with other data (the existence and closure of major plants and industries in the past, data on major area employers,...

By way of manufacturing output, inflation and population growth data this paper considers per capita U.S. output across the range of officially tracked manufacturing categories over the 1947-2018 period. After arguing for the validity of its method (in particular, the use of CPI-adjusted figures...