List of Contributors

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

Hideaki Miyajima

Takeo Kikkawa

Takashi Hikino

PART I. JAPAN'S EXPERIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL POLICY: A GENERAL OVERVIEW

Industrial Policy and Japan's International Competitiveness: Historical Overview and Assessment

Takeo Kikkawa

Takashi Hikino

Regulatory Framework, Government Intervention and Investment in Postwar Japan: The Structural Dynamics of J-Type Firm-Government Relationships

Hideaki Miyajima

PART II. LATECOMERS: INFLUENTIAL INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND COMPETITIVENESS

Industrial Policy and the Development of the Synthetic Fibre Industry: Industrial Policy as a Means for Promoting Economic Growth

Tsuneo Suzuki

Government and Business in Japan's General-Purpose Computer Industry

Kiyoshi Nakamura

Early Postwar Industrial Policy in Emerging Economies: Creating Competitive Assets or Correcting Market Failures?

Alice H. Amsden

PART III. PRIME MOVERS: ANTITRUST POLICY WITH INSIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL POLICY

Postwar US Antitrust Policy, Corporate Strategy, and International Competitiveness

William H. Becker

Competition and Industrial Policy in Britain, 1945-1973

Jim D. Tomlinson

Regulation American Style, 1933-1989

Richard H.K. Vietor

PART IV. FOLLOWERS: INSIGNIFICANT ANTITRUST POLICY WITH LITTLE INFLUENCE OF COMPETITIVENESS ON COMPETITIVENESS

The State and Enterprise in the German Economy after the Second World War

Werner Plumpe

Coherence and Limitations of French Industrial Policy during the Boom Period: It Was Not So Bad After All

Philippe Mioche

Harmful or Irrelevant? Italian Industrial Policy, 1945-1973

Giovanni Federico

Index