When giants converge
Subtitle: the role of U.S.-Japan direct investment
By: Dorothy B. Christelow.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Investments, Foreign.; Investments, American -- Japan.; Investments, Japanese -- United States.
Description: A path-breaking analysis of how international direct investment since World War II has played an important role in the process by which industrial countries generate technology and productivity growth. It covers both the leader-follower relations of the U.S. and Japan in the early postwar years, and the more complex relations between the two competitive but mutually dependent giants of recent years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-248) and index.