Product Description: This book fills a critical gap in modern economic and business history by presenting research by leading scholars to an international audience of academics, business executives, and policy makers. This research is presented in two clusters...read more

Tracing the history of the consumer electronics and computer businesses from a global perspective, the author of Scale and Scope explores the evolution of the Information Age, discussing the IBM's role in the development of technology, Japan's conquest of the global electronics market, and more. 25,000 first printing.

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Product Description: This book focuses on the so-called `Golden Age of Capitalism' the 1950s and 1960s, and studying prime-mover countries (the US and the UK), followers (Germany, France, and Italy), and latecomers (Japan and Korea). It addresses the crucial questions to be asked; what appropriate roles should government be assigned, and which government actions are useful public policy and which represent unnecessary and harmful intervention...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)