Forging Industrial Policy - The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age

Frank Dobbin

Cambridge University Press

1997

280 páginas

9h 20m

ISBN-10: 052162990X

The United States, France, and Britain use markedly different kinds of industrial policies to foster economic growth today. 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 by argueing that cultural meaning plays an important role in the development of purportedly rational policies designed to promote industrial growth. This book has implications for the study of rational institutions including science, management, and economics, as well as for the study of culture.