Excerpt from The Myth and Reality of Our Urban ProblemsThe Stafford Little Lectures have afforded me an opportunity to venture into what, for me, is an untrod field. Here the object is prescription, not prognosis. Here, priorities and object ives are asserted. And like anyone's list of priorities and objectives, personal values and per sonal perspectives are deeply involved.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of ...
Excerpt from The Myth and Reality of Our Urban Problems
For contemporary America, the barefoot boy with cheek of tan is a nostalgic memory, the victim of hot asphalt roads and speeding auto traffic. Today, two out of three children in America are growing up in an urban setting. Raised in seedy brownstones, garden apartments, or trim sub urban yards, they are strangers to the unpolluted swimming hole and the dusty country lane.
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This is the first book that explores the relationship between the United States and Japan in terms of the competition for industrial raw materials. With startling consistency, their responses to similar problems appear to stem from each country's history and culture, almost as if the country had no choice but to pursue the policy selected. Vernon suggests that in this field of policy, political leaders are prisoners of their national environme...
This is the first book that explores the relationship between the United States and Japan in terms of the competition for industrial raw materials. With startling consistency, their responses to similar problems appear to stem from each country's history and culture, almost as if the country had no choice but to pursue the policy selected. Vernon suggests that in this field of policy, political leaders are prisoners of their national environme...
This volume provides an analysis of the economic decision making process within the US establishment and includes five highly publicized case studies from recent years. The book also explains how different economic policymaking is from the political decisionmaking process.
This volume provides an analysis of the economic decision making process within the US establishment and includes five highly publicized case studies from recent years. The book also explains how different economic policymaking is from the political decisionmaking process.
The five country studies, five industry studies and two more general papers are well integrated to make this one of the best books we have on industrial policy and the different patterns of government-business relations developing in Western Europe.
This is the key volume in the New York Metropolitan Region Study. It is a synthesis and interpretation of the seven specialized books that have already been published and the one that is still awaiting publication. Here, at last, with a depth of perspective made possible by the author's familiarity with the unpublished as well as the published findings of the other participants in the Study, is the whole picture--New York's busy and varied eco...
enterprise and the nation-state. Both have a major role to play, and yet must make basic changes in their practices and policies to accommodate each other.
