The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
LOSS OF LEADERSHIP^455 layed remedies in the decades since the World War II, one is inclined to define the British disease as a ...
(^456) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS not this and that enterprise, but the whole industry.* Sometimes, hav ing learned thei ...
LOSS OF LEADERSHIP^457 like people, as suffering from hardening of the arteries. This is pardy because people create them, peopl ...
(^458) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS branches, the industrial countries began together, and the high sci ence content of th ...
LOSS OF LEADERSHIP^459 ICI, Pilkington, Glaxo, Courtauld, Dunlop, all of which bear witness to the commercial power of innovatio ...
(^460) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS ductivity in 1950, after a few years of cleanup and a new start in Ger many and Japan, ...
LOSS OF LEADERSHIP^461 Japan is excellent, overall productivity is substantially lower (55 percent of the American), because agr ...
(^462) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS result, the industry was characterized by models galore (198 in 1913), short runs, and ...
LOSS OF LEADERSHIP^463 any more than of workers.) In the long run it was a false economy. When, after World War II, foreign cars ...
(^464) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS By 1989, British Leyland (renamed Rover Group), the residual conglomerate of a generati ...
27. Winners and T he twentieth century divides neatiy at two points: 1914 and 1945. The first date marked the start of the so-ca ...
(^466) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS ders fields seems to have come as a great surprise. Obtuse commanders reckoned with imp ...
WINNERS AND^467 lion dead, 35 million wounded, 3 million lost; some 30 million civil ian deaths, including 6 million European J ...
(^468) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Even before World War II was over, the cold war between the two sys- tems had begun, or ...
WINNERS AND^469 percent. Streets filled with cars day and night; vehicles could be seen parked outside farms that, even after th ...
(^470) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS among them tended to buy their cars from Germany. But France re mained the master of q ...
WINNERS AND^471 Western powers needed and wanted Germany. So, unlike the hard, if often futile, enforcement of reparations after ...
(^472) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS tions and reprisals. Now die Japanese learned that they had more to gain by buying than ...
WINNERS AND^473 management, attention to detail so as to eliminate error (zero defects). Competitors in older industrial nations ...
(^474) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS had built their own devices). Automobiles were taken apart and checked inside and out b ...
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