Unwanted Company
Subtitle: Foreign Investment in American Industries
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801441233
Subjects: Capitalist or free market economies; Domestic trade & commerce; Globalization; Political science & theory; Investments, Foreign; Government & Business; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; USA; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Investments & Securities - General; International Relations - General; United States
First sentence: In the late 1970s many U.S.-owned firms found themselves in an unfamiliar situation.
Description: "Unwanted Company examines the different ways in which important U.S. industries (including semiconductors, automobiles, steel, consumer electronics, telecommunications, and airlines) reacted to this new challenge. It focuses on the political responses of U.S.-owned firms to how Washington ought to regulate foreign direct investment and how it ought to treat foreign-owned firms in the United States.

"Some industries welcomed (or at least didn't oppose) foreign investment, whereas others sought restrictive and discriminatory policies. Crystal demonstrates how the nature of the domestic political environment shapes the translation of economic interests into policy preferences."--Jacket.