Research Catalog

Title

Industrial policy in Europe, Japan and the USA : amounts, mechanisms and effectiveness / Pierre-André Buigues and Khalid Sekkat.

Author

Buigues, Pierre-André

Publication

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Additional Authors

Sekkat, Khalid

Description

xx, 232 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

As the current financial crisis threatens the global economy, heralding global slowdown of the stock markets, pessimistic growth prospects and trembling consumer confidence, this book examines whether public support to business can be beneficial. It draws on recent developments in the theoretical and empirical literature and on the experience of 5 industrialized countries Germany, the UK, France, the USA and Japan. Over the past half century the mainstream view of industrial policy has varied markedly. From the early 1950s to the early 1970s industrial policy was seen as panacea to growth and development problems. Pursuing industrial policy became almost taboo in the early 1980s. Current views are breaking away from past trends, with the development and testing of new economic theories, attitudes towards industrial policy are now less clear-cut. In light of the current financial crisis, this volume presents economic theory and critical views on the implementation of public support policies, and offers a structured, up-to-date analysis relating theory, practices and effectiveness of industrial policy. It is an indispensable read for students, academics, policy-makers, as it promises to provide an enhanced understanding of successful and unsuccessful, industrial policies.

Subject

• Industrial policy > Europe
• Industrial policy > Japan
• Industrial policy > United States
• Industrial policy > Cross-cultural studies
• Industrial policy > Europe > Case studies
• Industrial policy > Japan > Case studies
• Industrial policy > United States > Case studies
• POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Business Development
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > General
• Economic history
• Industrial policy
• Industriepolitik
• Wirkungsanalyse
• Vergleich
• EU-Staaten
• USA
• Japan
• Industripolitik > Europa > Fallstudier
• Industripolitik > Japan > Fallstudier
• Industripolitik > Förenta staterna > Fallstudier

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.

Contents

Public support to business : an overview -- Cases for public support : market failures -- Argument against public support : government failures -- Instruments of support : subsidies and public procurement -- Effectiveness of public support -- Subsidies and state aid -- Public procurement -- Public support in Germany -- Public support in France -- Public support in the United Kingdom -- Public support in the United States -- Public support in Japan.

ISBN

• 9780230579880 (alk. paper)
• 0230579884 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009043546

OCLC

• 458738428
• SCSB-12443146

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library