Dismantling the cold war economy

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Dismantling the cold war economy

Ann Markusen and Joel Yudken

BasicBooks, c1992

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-297) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hard ISBN 9780465006625

内容説明

For 5 decades the American economy has devoted some of its best resources to waging the Cold War. By the 1990s, this investment had not only made the United States the world's high-tech cop but had also successfully launched many new industries - computing, chipbased electronics, and satellite communications. But this military-based industrial policy has come at a high social and economic price, as the authors demonstrate in a comprehensive reassessment of the military-industrial complex. Based on extensive new data and on interviews with defense industry executives, Pentagon officials, and community and union leaders, this book shows in disturbing detail how Cold War technologies have distorted and drained the economy. Military-led industrial policy has misfocused our research efforts, displaced more jobs than were created, and kept us from competing effectively in world markets. The authors argue that a reversal in the long downward slide of the American economy will require a concerted effort at economic conversion. They outline a national "needs-based" science and technology policy to resore standards of living and industrial vitality and propose an integrated economic development strategy designed to break addiction to Pentagon patronage. Here is a blunt and meticulously researched critique of the bitter economic fruits of the cold war - and a plan for a cure.

目次

  • Part 1 An economy at war: the world's high-tech cop
  • creating defense-dependency
  • stuck in the war economy trough
  • redirecting science and technology
  • breaching the war economy trough. Part 2 The rise of postmodern warfare: warfare goes extraterrestrial
  • machines at war
  • the boom in military electronics
  • Cold War and continual innovation
  • demand - or supply - driven?
  • making weapons flexibly, secretly, expensively
  • separate and better than equal. Part 3 The aerospace industry comes of age: the ACE complex
  • Rosie the riveter and her minority co-workers
  • redeployed defense workers - what are their options? Part 4 A wall of separation: Lockheed - a military-industrial prototype
  • who's who in selling to the Pentagon
  • breeding defense-dependency
  • strange bedfellows
  • why a wall of separation?
  • how well does the ACE complex perform?
  • the resilience of the wall. Part 5 Innovation goes to war: science-based weapons
  • creating the modern research system
  • from cradle to grave
  • universities as the cradle
  • the Faustian bargain
  • in the corporate nursery
  • the spin-off slump
  • dual-use - the Pentagon's new tack?
  • the politics of dual-use
  • the limits of dual-use policy. Part 6 Weapons of paper and pen: defense job growth
  • soldier, sailor, candlestick-maker?
  • the military "scientific city"
  • the mental assembly line
  • the eggheads
  • the can-dos
  • military-industrial managers
  • blue-collar defense workers
  • negotiating the strategy
  • getting there. Part 7 Cold War communities: the Cold War gunbelt
  • how the gunbelt came to be
  • location theory when government is the market
  • camp followers
  • the geography of strategic fears
  • arms geography and the make-or-buy decision
  • cold-shouldered by the Cold War
  • pork-barreling - the Pentagon versus the politicians
  • geographical constituency building
  • gunbelt boosterism
  • the benefits of the gunbelt
  • gunbelt drawbacks
  • gunbelt politics
  • a post- Cold War gunbelt? Part 8 Scaling the wall of separation: big business and the present build-down
  • smaller firms - headed underwater
  • converting the company may not convert jobs
  • labour - reconsidering the benefits of Cold War
  • converting workers
  • converting the local economy
  • converting facilities
  • Quincy shipyards
  • McDonnel-doubles aircraft
  • Blaw-Knox foundry
  • Unisys defense computer systems
  • lessons from conversion efforts
  • at the Cold War crossroads. Part 9 Dismantling the Cold War Economy: toward a nurturing economy
  • competitiveness is not the answer
  • a national economic development strategy
  • building the new economic order
  • reinvesting the peace dividend
  • tight from the start
  • from hot war to Cold War
  • why not auto?
  • aerospace sidekicks - electronics, communications, and computers
  • a closet industrial policy
  • the fruits of cultivating aerospace
  • the neglected industrial base
  • trouble on the horizon. blue-collar defense workers
  • negotiating the strategy
  • getting there.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780465016655

内容説明

Based on extensive interviews with defence industry executives, Pentagon officials and community and union leaders, this book shows in detail how Cold War technologies have distorted and drained the economy. It is a comprehensive reassessment of the military-industrial complex now that the Cold War has ended. Ann Markusen is the author of "The Rise of the Gunbelt".

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