In Praise of Hard Industries
Subtitle: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the key to Future Prosperity
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: September 9, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780395899687
First sentence: You can hardly pick up a newspaper these days without reading yet another glowing account of the golden prospects supposedly in store for the United States in the so-called postindustrial era.
Description: "In this challenge to conventional wisdom, Eamonn Fingleton takes aim at the information economy's claim to have superseded manufacturing as the engine of America's future prosperity. Fingleton exposes startling flaws in the current view that the United States can be preeminent in the global economy by focusing exclusively on so-called postindustrial businesses such as finance, computer software, Internet services, and entertainment."--BOOK JACKET.

"In Praise of Hard Industries offers an authoritative and deeply disturbing counterargument to the many unexamined assumptions and glibly misstated facts that are driving our embrace of postindustrialism."--BOOK JACKET.