Capsule Review Winter 1982/83 Issue

Toward a New U.S. Industrial Policy; Industry Vitalization: Toward a National Industrial Policy

Edited by Michael L. Wachter and Susan M. Wachter, Edited by Margaret E. Dewar
Reviewed by William Diebold, Jr.

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Toward a New U.S. Industrial Policy

by Edited by Michael L. Wachter and Susan M. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982
536 pp. $30.00
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Industry Vitalization: Toward a National Industrial Policy

by Edited by Margaret E. Dewar
Pergamon Press, 1982
252 pp. $25.00
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The growth of concern about the structural weaknesses of the American economy are reflected in the choice of "industrial policy" as the focus of conferences at Penn's Wharton School and at the Hubert Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. Scholars with government experience provide some of the best contributions to both these valuable books.