Books by Rebecca Lowen
“America does not believe that it has an industrial policy, but where it actually does, and where you really see it, is in defense policy. The United States spends hundreds of billions of dollars on manufacturing weapons, tanks, ships—everything that the military and the Pentagon need. This is where factories get made; this is how universities get funded…What Lowen has done is explore—from the 1930s to the 1970s—why universities expanded the way they did. The thesis is that in the post-World War Two era, universities needed funding. In the 1930s, the entire university system in the United States was impacted by the Great Depression, from their own endowments to the people paying the tuition and also donations. The universities were looking around and saying, how do we grow in this coming era? What Lowen finds is that the universities start looking for funding from the federal government. They start asking for more research grants, they start asking for more subsidization of the system, and on top of that, they’re also looking to private industry for the first time for support.” Read more...
The best books on Industrial Policy
Danny Crichton, Journalist
Interviews where books by Rebecca Lowen were recommended
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Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
by Ha-Joon Chang -
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Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford
by Rebecca Lowen -
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Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization
by Alice Amsden -
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The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning
by Alain Desrosières & Camille Naish (translator) -
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
by Joseph Tainter
The best books on Industrial Policy, recommended by Danny Crichton
The best books on Industrial Policy, recommended by Danny Crichton
Government intervention in the economy played a key role in the East Asian economic miracle and, further back, the development of countries that have traditionally championed free markets around the world. As the merit of state leadership in key industries returns to mainstream debate, Danny Crichton of venture capital firm Lux Capital recommends five outstanding books for understanding industrial policy.
