Policies for Competitiveness: Comparing Business-Government Relationships in the "Golden Age of Capitalism"

by Hideaki Miyajima (editor), Takeo Kikkawa (Editor), Takashi Hikino (Editor)

This book focuses on the so-called `Golden Age of Capitalism' the 1950s and 1960s, and studying prime-mover countries (the US and the UK), followers (Germany, France, and Italy), and latecomers (Japan and Korea). It addresses the crucial questions to be asked; what appropriate roles should government be assigned, and which government actions are useful public policy and which represent unnecessary and harmful intervention?

356 pages, Hardcover

First published September 23, 1999