Troubled industries in the United States and Japan
By: Hong W. Tan and Haruo Shimada, editors.
Contributors: Tan, Hong W., 1949-; Shimada, Haruo, 1943-; Rand Corporation.; Nihon Keizai Kenkyū Sentā.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Industries -- United States.; Industries -- Japan.; Industrial policy -- United States.; Industrial policy -- Japan.; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- United States.; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Japan.
Description: For both the United States and Japan, the changing circumstances of the world economy since the 1970s have brought into sharp focus the need to restructure industry. This book, the outcome of a three-year joint project by American and Japanese economists, provides new insights into the subject of industrial restructuring. It compares U.S. and Japanese experiences, with perspectives from economic theory and from empirical analyses of anti-dumping, cartels, and resource allocation.

Overviews of U.S. and Japanese policies are backed up by careful case studies of the adjustment experiences of selected troubled industries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Rand study."
Contains papers from two conferences co-sponsored by the Rand Corporation and the Japan Center for Economic Research, and held iun Tokyo, in Mar. 1989, and in Santa Monica, Calif., in Apr. 1990.