Search Results for industrial policy

... and made the economic miracle a more plausible aspiration for fascist powers, post-fascist powers, and later developing countries. From the 1970s until the Asian financial crisis in 1997, economic miracle talk was a proxy terrain for debates about industrial policy, authoritarian governance, and rapid...

... and those who are “toured upon.” Wisconsin’s deliberate use of Indians, Indian places, and Indian history in the development of its tourism industry produced a similar problem.21 This path toward a profitable 38  Radical History Review tourist economy was at odds with federal Indian policy...

... industry. And yet this policy, after an initial implementation in New South Wales in 1995, has failed to gain much legislative support in jurisdictions outside Australia and New Zealand. This article moves beyond normative arguments regarding the benefits and limits of decriminalization. Drawing...

.... Amid the growing concern over global climate change and much finger pointing among environmentalists at the oil industry and global energy producers, the main solution to global warming has been pushed along by some of these same producers and business interests. Carbon trading had its origins...

... reliant on linking bodies to unchanging hierarchically stacked cultures, without reference to physical differences. For example, the putative unproductiveness of the Gaelic Irish not only placed them at a lower level of civilization than the industrious English but it also authorizes increasingly...

... the development of labor relations and business practices around the globe. Starting in Korea, US military leaders implemented a range of policies to promote cost savings and efficiencies in the construction and operation of its supply chains. Of most consequence was its promotion of racialized labor practices...

...Elisa Camiscioli; Eva Payne Abstract This article traces how social reformers, state actors, physicians, feminists, and people who sell sex have described the demand for prostitution, a term that has provided ideological support for policy approaches both supporting and opposing commercial sex over...

... economic policy focused on curbing inflation, which had been rising since the mid-1950s. Under Goulart, economic growth plummeted from 8.6 percent in 1961 to 0.6 percent in 1963. Brazil’s industrial output contracted during his last full year in office, an alarming development that had not happened since...

...-faire economics or, conversely, to government intervention in the economy. Some economists argue that elected governments have consistently implemented industrial policies and provided government support to leading industries to support growth. 14 Others have reexamined the past economy to determine...

... number of brothels in Australia in its local government area. Cleverly disguised as a “strategic planner” I helped refine and implement their sex industry policy. It was a world-first attempt to provide best practice guidance for the regulation of brothels and private sex workers and to bring them...

..., Germans, and later Japanese were also seizing essential powers from the Chinese government. The government lost fiscal autonomy (for example, customs taxes were collected by Europeans and appropriated as security on loans, indemnities, etc.) and the ability to direct national industrial policy...

... and businesspeople, postwar authorities reportedly inspired confidence as they encouraged investment through their industrial supply-side policies and their pragmatism. 4 The Cold War became an additional factor in fostering a fast-paced economic revival in the West. Several scholars have emphasized...

... world production capacity and then shipped low-cost, high-end product to the U.S. “Thesteel industry mod- ernized on a terrain of quicksand,” writes Stein. “The arrogance of U.S. policy was the notion that one could develop the industrial capacities of allies . . . and promote imports without...

..., reform monetary policy, or in any way seriously challenge the status quo. Foreign direct investment started as a quick fix but morphed into a long-term industrial policy. When Apple arrived in Ireland in 1980, it was one of the last companies to avail itself of a ten-year tax break that had been...

... of Grandin’s book is included in a review essay on Ford’s urban planning vision by Heather Barrow, “The Reach of an Automotive Giant: Urban Implications of an Industrial Policy,” Journal of Urban History 37 (2011): 297–301, esp. 298–99. 9. Grandin explains that he consciously avoided certain...

... tributes to South African social democracy under construction, with AIDS medicines finally available, free basic water and electricity, higher welfare payments, and a renewed state commitment to industrial policy. Our efforts seek out the devil in the details, with a view to exploring...

... breakfast program. These policies demonstrate that Mexican nutritionists and state officials reproduced the idea of milk’s superiority, denying or questioning, at best, the nutritional value of nondairy diets. The virtues of cow’s milk were extolled by industry both in Mexico and the United...

... The evolution of British policy towards colonial trade unions reflected changes in the British imperial economy. After the First World War Britain became more dependent on its empire. Unable to compete fully with its major industrial rivals, it directed a larger percentage of its trade toward imperial...

... processes? The expansion of markets also happens in time, because it occurs through an apparent denial of temporality, which is the planned obsolescence of products to attain the marketing of new ones. In fact, industrial policies that make electric appliances...

... it, the trend in each country was toward the formation of unified trade unions, toward coalition governments with the Left in predomi- nance, toward a mixed economy, and toward the national rebuilding pact. Common, too, was an industrial policy that was basically a holdover from the war economy, often...