How Nations Succeed: Manufacturing, Trade, Industrial Policy, and Economic Development

• Main Author: Yülek, Murat A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Development economics.; Economic history.; Industrial organization.; Economic policy.; Development Economics.; Economic History.; Industrial Organization.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Economic Policy.

"Illuminates one of the most important questions of our time, 'Why does manufacturing matter?' interweaving economics with history, theory and empirics from an international perspective." -Franco Mosconi, Jean Monnet Professor, Universitá degli Studi di Parma, Italy "Brilli...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Old World Order: Trade before the empires on which the sun never set
• 2. The Pre-Industrial New World Order: Colonial empires on which the sun never set
• 3. British Colonial Empire and Industrial Policy: Protection, Monopolized Trade and Industrialization
• 4. How Industrialized Nations Industrialized
• 5. The "Why" of manufacturing
• 6. Global Imbalances: Export-led growth vs import-led slow down
• 7. Value Added and the GDP: The smart vs the donkey
• 8. The industrialization process: A streamlined version
• 9. The Industrial Layer
• 10. Industrialization as capacity building: Skills, technical progress and technical capabilities
• 11. The State and State Capacity
• 12. The "How" of manufacturing: Industrial Policy
• 13. Industrial Policy: Some Case Studies from Today's World
• 14. Putting it all together: How nations succeed through industrial policy.