The End Of Laissez-faire

KEYNES: JOHN MAYNARD: The End of Laissez-Faire. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. 1926 1st. edition.

Blue hard card covers with paper label on cloth spine. With dustwrapper. 54pp. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed at ends with small chip and tear at top. Foxing spots to back and small pen marks to front with circular grease spot). Not price clipped. Spine slightly bumped at ends. small marks to covers inc cirular grease spot to front.Corners slightly bumped and lower corners slightly rubbed. Mild foxing marks to edges. Slight browning to endpapers with small pen mark to front. Else a clean and tight copy. "The following is based on the Sidney Ball Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford in 1924, and a Lecture delivered before the University of Berlin in 1926. J.M.K."

[SW: ECONOMICS JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, End of Laissez-Faire, Sidney Ball Lectures, Oxford, Berlin, 1926]

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Keynes, J.M. The End of the Laissez-Faire, London Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 1926
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Blue cloth spine with white paper title-label on spine, blue paper covered boards. 54 pp. Ink name and date of previous owner on the free front end paper. The work is based on the Sidney Ball Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford in 1924 and a lecture delivered before the University of Berlin in 1926. Second Impression No Jacket Small Octavo Hard Cover; Second Impression

[SW: Economics, Hogarth Press, John Maynard Keynes, Monetry Policy,]

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Tolchin, Martin: Selling Our Security: The Erosion of America's Assets, New York Knopf Publishing Group 1992
ISBN: 0-394-58309-4 As New Condition

This is the first book to pinpoint, case by case, name by name, how our political leaders have permitted America's vital technological assets to be sold off to foreign-owned companies - how these leaders have failed to grasp that economic innovation and competitiveness are as important to national security as military hardware. The Tolchins show how technologies developed in the United States have been acquired and commercialized by overseas competitors; how one industry after another has radically declined - automobiles, televisions, telephones, semiconductors, machine tools; how we have lost our lead in supercomputers, optoelectronics, and digital imaging. And they detail the cost in lost jobs, lost national income, lost market share, a lower standard of living, a huge trade deficit - and far too much reliance on foreign sources that can at will raise prices or even withhold products. Is a link trainer to simulate the F-16 fighter plane wanted? The American company that makes it has been sold to a Canadian firm. Do we need rarefied gases critical to the manufacture of almost all semiconductor equipment? The only firm that produces them was sold in 1991 to a Japanese manufacturer. During the Gulf War, U.S. diplomats had to go begging for access to advanced technologies that Americans had invented - and then had sold. How has this happened? The authors argue that while other governments have been working with their industries to secure their nations' economic future, ours has ignored global realities. American presidents, the Congress and regulators, believing their own "free market," laissez-faire rhetoric, have defined national security too narrowly as no more than military preparedness. They have ignored their responsibility to secure an industrial base that will allow us to deal from strength. While fully acknowledging that greed and short-sightedness (and offers difficult to refuse) have lured some American executives into mortgaging our future, the Tolchi Publishers Weekly As American manufacturers of critical technologies (e.g., semiconductors, robotics, energy, biotechnology) are increasingly taken over by foreign investors, the U.S. is in grave danger of losing its technological edge and becoming dependent on overseas suppliers, assert the authors of Buying into America (he is a New York Times Washington correspondent; she is a professor of public administration at George Washington University). Indicting current policies as shortsighted, they clearly demonstrate through case studies that ownership matters crucially in the areas of product design, engineering and ''intellectual property.'' Faulting the Bush administration for inertia, the Tolchins spell out an agenda to preserve America's critical technologies, including tougher trade policies, subsidies to jeopardized firms and a stronger government role in protecting and integrating critical industries. This hard-hitting report on an issue of vital interest to American prosperity and security will surely stir debate. (Sept.) Library Journal In Selling Our Security, the Tolchins (Martin is a New York Times correspondent and Susan is a professor of public administration) alert us to the precipitous decline in America's safety. They maintain that the United States, accustomed to defining national security within the narrow confines of military preparedness, has permitted critical companies and even entire industries crucial to its future to slip under the control of other countries. In a fast-paced, journalistic style, the Tolchins chronicle the dissolution of American high-tech manufacturing capability and the related failure of U.S. regulatory mechanisms to stay the loss. <P>They call upon the U.S. government to enhance regional trade agreements, allow consortia and the positive characteristics of cartels, and subsidize critical industries. Romm opens The Once and Future Superpower with an assault on the same narrowly construed national security paradigm denounced by the Tolchins. With the end of the Cold War, he argues, we can abandon Hardcover 6 x 9"

[SW: Technology transfer -- Economic aspects -- United, States, Investments, Foreign -- United States, National security -- United States]

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John Maynard Keynes: The End of Laissez-Faire: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Great Minds Series) Prometheus Books 2004-12 ISBN: 1591022681
1591022681 New

New. Contains very slight shelf wear (like you would see in a major chain store). Very nice copy. Looks like an interesting title! We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. Paperback

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