Making In America

Author : Suzanne Berger
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262528375

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Making in America by Suzanne Berger Pdf

How America can rebuild its industrial landscape to sustain an innovative economy. America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the superstar of innovation, locates its production in China (yet still reaps most of its profits in the United States). When innovation does not find the capital, skills, and expertise it needs to come to market in the United States, what does it mean for economic growth and job creation? Inspired by the MIT Made in America project of the 1980s, Making in America brings experts from across MIT to focus on a critical problem for the country. MIT scientists, engineers, social scientists, and management experts visited more than 250 firms in the United States, Germany, and China. In companies across America—from big defense contractors to small machine shops and new technology start-ups—these experts tried to learn how we can rebuild the industrial landscape to sustain an innovative economy. At each stop, they asked this basic question: “When you have a new idea, how do you get it into the market?” They found gaping holes and missing pieces in the industrial ecosystem. Even in an Internet-connected world, proximity to innovation and users matters for industry. Making in America describes ways to strengthen this connection, including public-private collaborations, new government-initiated manufacturing innovation institutes, and industry/community college projects. If we can learn from these ongoing experiments in linking innovation to production, American manufacturing could have a renaissance.

Author : Heidi Hemming,Julie Hemming Savage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Women
ISBN : 0982127103

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Women Making America by Heidi Hemming,Julie Hemming Savage Pdf

Enhanced by photographs, reproductions, and sidebars, a survey of the role of women in American history covers such areas as health, work, education, amusements, the arts, work, and beauty.

Author : Bertie Charles Forbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Capitalists and financiers
ISBN : PSU:000055161923

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Men who are Making America by Bertie Charles Forbes Pdf

Author : Jonathan Barry Forman
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0877667314

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Making America Work by Jonathan Barry Forman Pdf

Work. Hard work! And plenty of it. That is what has made the United States into the world's foremost economic superpower. But while we Americans value and respect work, we are also concerned about economic justice. We like to see all workers earn a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. And we like having a safety net to catch those who cannot compete successfully in our labor markets. America works because of this balance between the desire to reward work and our concerns about economic justice. But according to Jon Forman, America could work even better. In Making America Work, Forman explains how current government policies influence work and work behavior and makes the case for changing government tax, welfare, Social Security, pension, and labor market policies to encourage work and promote greater economic justice. It is a clear, provocative declaration of principles and a bold prescription for policies that restore and preserve the balance of work rewards and economic justice.

Author : Richard M. Locke,Rachel L. Wellhausen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262019927

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Production in the Innovation Economy by Richard M. Locke,Rachel L. Wellhausen Pdf

Resource added for the Economics "10-809-195" courses.

Author : Robert D. Johnston
Publisher : National Geographic Kids
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0792269160

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Making of America by Robert D. Johnston Pdf

An overview of the history of the United States.

Author : W. Cleon Skousen
Publisher : Verity Publishing
Page : 1647 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780934364669

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The Making of America by W. Cleon Skousen Pdf

The United States of America has been blessed with the world’s greatest political success formula. In a little over a century, this formula allowed a small segment of the human family—less than 6 percent—to become the richest nation on earth. It allowed them to create more than half of the world’s total output in production and enjoy the highest standard of living in the history of the world. In this book, we learn how the Founding Fathers discovered this success formula. Much of this discovery is told in the words of the Founders themselves, so that the reader can feel the power of their minds sweeping away thousands of years of bad government and illogical laws to formulate a whole new society based on human freedom. By returning to the roots of the Founders’ thinking, and contemplating the logic that they used in establishing the Constitution, we can better understand the challenges and solutions that confront us in today’s political world. This eBook includes the original index, illustrations, footnotes, table of contents and page numbering from the printed format.

Author : Olivier Zunz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226994604

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Making America Corporate, 1870-1920 by Olivier Zunz Pdf

A study of the impact of corporate middle-level managers and white collar workers on American society and culture. An extended essay on social change based on case studies of a wide range of participants in the emerging corporate culture of the early 1900s. Zunz is in the history department at the U. of Virginia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Families
ISBN : UCBK:B000782793

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The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein Pdf

Author : David Brian Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136974298

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Federalism and the Making of America by David Brian Robertson Pdf

Though Americans rarely appreciate it, federalism has profoundly shaped their nation’s past, present, and future. Federalism—the division of government authority between the national government and the states—affects the prosperity, security, and daily life of every American. In this nuanced and comprehensive overview, David Brian Robertson shows that past choices shape present circumstances, and that a deep understanding of American government, public policy, political processes, and society requires an understanding of the key steps in federalism’s evolution in American history. The most spectacular political conflicts in American history have been fought on the battlefield of federalism, including states’ rights to leave the union, government power to regulate business, and responses to the problems of race, poverty, pollution, abortion, and gay rights. Federalism helped fragment American politics, encourage innovation, foster the American market economy, and place hurdles in the way of efforts to mitigate the consequences of economic change. Federalism helped construct the path of American political development. Federalism and the Making of America is a sorely needed text that treats the politics of federalism systematically and accessibly, making it indispensible to all students and scholars of American politics. Chosen as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012.

Author : Neil Foley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674048485

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Mexicans in the Making of America by Neil Foley Pdf

America has always been a composite of racially blended peoples, never a purely white Anglo-Protestant nation. The Mexican American historian Neil Foley offers a sweeping view of the evolution of Mexican America, from a colonial outpost on Mexico’s northern frontier to a twenty-first-century people integral to the nation they have helped build.

Author : Isaac Stone Fish
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780525657712

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America Second by Isaac Stone Fish Pdf

A timely, provocative exposé of American political and business leadership’s deep ties to China: a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing—at a profound and often hidden cost to U.S. interests. The past few years have seen relations between China and the United States shift, from enthusiastic economic partners, to wary frenemies, to open rivals. Americans have been slow to wake up to the challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party. Why did this happen? And what can we do about it? In America Second, Isaac Stone Fish traces the evolution of the Party’s influence in America. He shows how America’s leaders initially welcomed China’s entry into the U.S. economy, believing that trade and engagement would lead to a more democratic China. And he explains how—although this belief has proved misguided--many of our businesspeople and politicians have become too dependent on China to challenge it. America Second exposes a deep network of Beijing’s influence in America, built quietly over the years through prominent figures like former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright, Disney chairman Bob Iger, and members of the Bush family. And it shows how to fight that influence–without being paranoid, xenophobic, or racist. This is an authoritative and important story of corruption and good intentions gone wrong, with serious implications not only for the future of the United States, but for the world at large.

Author : John Bassett,Ellis Henican
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1455563560

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Making It in America by John Bassett,Ellis Henican Pdf

Everyone knows you can't build things in America anymore. Everyone, that is, except John D. Bassett III. While one corporation after another exported their manufacturing to high-volume factories in low-wage locations overseas, Bassett's traditional wood bedroom furniture manufacturing company has not only survived, but thrived, making premium products right here in America. When everyone else was rushing for the exits, Bassett bet on the talent, dedication, and uncompromising quality of American workmanship. And he won. In Making It in America, Bassett tells you the secrets that have made Vaughan-Bassett Furniture so successful doing what everyone said couldn't be done. Drawing on rich life experience, including the everyday challenges running a traditional manufacturing company, Bassett constructs a 12-point plan to achieve successful leadership in any business. These steps include: Have a winning attitude, respect your employees, don't panic, reinvest constantly, and make the best of the worst. Bassett's story is about how those values underpinned his personal success and how they can revitalize America itself. In the face of feckless leadership, crumbling infrastructure, and global competition, Bassett's story is a blueprint for how America can revitalize its role as leader of the free world and how your success can be part of it.

Author : Amir Hussain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Islam
ISBN : 1481306235

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Muslims and the Making of America by Amir Hussain Pdf

"There has never been an America without Muslims"--so begins Amir Hussain, one of the most important scholars and teachers of Islam in America. Hussain, who is himself an American Muslim, contends that Muslims played an essential role in the creation and cultivation of the United States. Memories of 9/11 and the rise of global terrorism fuel concerns about American Muslims. The fear of American Muslims in part stems from the stereotype that all followers of Islam are violent extremists who want to overturn the American way of life. Inherent to this stereotype is the popular misconception that Islam is a new religion to America. In Muslims and the Making of America Hussain directly addresses both of these stereotypes. Far from undermining America, Islam and American Muslims have been, and continue to be, important threads in the fabric of American life. Hussain chronicles the history of Islam in America to underscore the valuable cultural influence of Muslims on American life. He then rivets attention on music, sports, and culture as key areas in which Muslims have shaped and transformed American identity. America, Hussain concludes, would not exist as it does today without the essential contributions made by its Muslim citizens.

Author : James M. Fallows
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0395528100

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More Like Us by James M. Fallows Pdf

More Like Us is a celebration of American openness to immigration and aspiration and a skeptic's tour of the rigidity of Asian societies. Fallows is the author of the highly acclaimed National Defense.