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This major book provides a new understanding of systems of
corporate governance, notably in the USA, Japan and the EU. It
discusses how governance influences corporate cultures and
strategies, particularly in response to the effects of deepening
integration in the world economy. These effects present challenges
for governments, obliging them to focus increasingly on problems of
the management of structural and foreign trade policies. Challenges
in international financial markets also have to be confronted by
policymakers as industries are funded more and more through
cross-border investments, which reflect the responses of systems of
corporate governance to globalization. The book links studies of
corporate governance with surveys of efficiencies and failures in
international financial markets, as well as examining aspects of
corporate governance systems that have special significance for the
management of economic policies as globalization continues. The
contributors advocate increased international cooperation to
promote more structural complementarities in the world economy.
This book rests on the proposition that the information techology
revolution of the last ten years marks the beginning of a
fundamental economic transformation. This transformation will
affect every activity in which organization, information
processing, or communication is important. It may well require
changes in ideas about ownership, property, and control--the way in
which governments regulate economies in the broadest sense of that
term. The e-commerce transformation presents remarkable
opportunities for businesses, governments, and other organizations
to remake themselves, recreate what it is that they can do, and
reconstruct their relationships with customers, citizens, and
constituents. A project of the Berkeley Roundtable on the
International Economy (BRIE) and the Institute on Global Conflict
and Cooperation (IGCC), this volume analyzes the way this
transformation will affect market structure and pricing models in
several major industries: retail financial services, air travel,
music, automobiles, semiconductors, hearing instruments, food,
textiles, and trucking.
"an excellent new book" -- Paul Krugman, The New York Times
History, not ideology, holds the key to growth. Brilliantly written
and argued, Concrete Economics shows how government has repeatedly
reshaped the American economy ever since Alexander Hamilton's
first, foundational redesign. This book does not rehash the sturdy
and long-accepted arguments that to thrive, entrepreneurial
economies need a broad range of freedoms. Instead, Steve Cohen and
Brad DeLong remedy our national amnesia about how our economy has
actually grown and the role government has played in redesigning
and reinvigorating it throughout our history. The government not
only sets the ground rules for entrepreneurial activity but directs
the surges of energy that mark a vibrant economy. This is as true
for present-day Silicon Valley as it was for New England
manufacturing at the dawn of the nineteenth century. The authors'
argument is not one based on abstract ideas, arcane discoveries, or
complex correlations. Instead it is based on the facts--facts that
were once well known but that have been obscured in a fog of
ideology--of how the US economy benefited from a pragmatic
government approach to succeed so brilliantly. Understanding how
our economy has grown in the past provides a blueprint for how we
might again redesign and reinvigorate it today, for such a redesign
is sorely needed.
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