Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (530 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521451213 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This book has implications for the study of rational institutions of all sorts, including science, management, and economics, as well as for the study of culture.. To understand the origins of these different policies, this book examines the evolution of public policies governing one of the first modern industries, the railroads. The author challenges conventional thinking in economics, political science, and sociology by arguing that cultural meaning plays an important role in the development of purportedly rational policies designed to promote industrial growth. The United States, France, and Britain use markedly different kinds of industrial policies to foster economic growth
Interesting This interesting and well argued book is an attempt to broaden economic history and treat it as the subject of economic sociology, an effort to look carefully at the interactions of economics in modernizing states with the inheritence of distinctive political traditions. Dobbin uses the development of national rail systems in Britain, France, and the USA as a series of i
Silberman, American Political Science Review"the book is studded with insightoffers a provocative case for the significance of socially constructed belief systems for assessing comparative and persisting industrial policy paradigms." Dolores Greenberg, The Journal of American History"a welcome rejoinder to those students of industrial policy who try to impose a single logic of development onto the very different experiences of particular countriess very real merits as a comparative study should not be ignored." Colin Divall, Times Higher Education Supplement"smoothly written and lively exposition of great coherence that won the 1996 Max Weber Prize from the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association." Societies, Economies, and Organizations"Princeton University socio