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1. Introduction -- 2. The American industrial policy debate : any lessons for the UK? / Grahame Thompson -- 3. Made in USA / Karel Williams -- 4. Accounting for failure in the nationalized enterprises : coal, steel and cars since 1970 / Karel Williams. [et al.] -- 5. The end of mass production? / Karel Williams. [et al.] -- 6. Overseas investment and left policy proposals / Allin Cottrell.

ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. The relationship between the financial and industrial sector in the United Kingdom economy -- ch. 3. Capitalist profit calculation and inflation accounting -- ch. 4. Capitalist profit calculation and inflation accounting : a comment / Angelo Reati -- ch. 5. Economic calculation as 'sign'? A reply to Angelo Reati -- ch. 6. Monetarism and economic ideology -- ch. 7. The firm as a 'dispersed' social agency.

1. Introduction : what is at stake in revisiting globalization? -- 2. The fate of territorial engineering in an era of 'durable disorder' : mechanisms of territorial power and post-liberal forms of international governance -- 3. Exploring sameness and difference : fundamentalisms and the future of globalization -- 4. Globalization, finance and the 'crisis' : a critical assessment -- 5. The global regulatory consequences of an irrational crisis : examining 'animal spirits' and 'excessive exuberances' as features of the financial system -- 6. Sources of financial sociability : networks, ecological systems or diligent risk preparedness? -- 7. From artisan to partisan : what would it mean to be an artisan of finance? -- 8. Creating credit and rating it : central banks in post-crisis global finance.

What happened to economic policy during the first five years of Mrs Thatcher's government? Most commentators have emphasised the radical changes wrought in economic theory and policy over the period from 1979. The left saw this as heralding the introduction of the social market economy and authoritarian populism, the right saw it as evangelical monetarism and a new beginning. This book, first published in 1986, challenges the notion that there was a revolution in economic policy making. It emphasises the constraints on economic policy formation and the ironies that these have thrown up with re

With the advent of Thatcherism in the UK and Reaganomics in the USA, 'industrial policy' had become something of a discredited notion in the 1980s. The emphasis had shifted to programmes of deregulation, de-nationalization, and tax reform. The essays in this challenging and vigorous collection, first published in 1989, sprung from work that had been conducted in the USA, notably at the Harvard Business School, on reappraising the role of the public sector in industrial management. This American work suggested ways in which public sector and other bodies might have revitalized industrial life.T

Grahame Thompson explores the ways in which the word network has been deployed in a wide range of literature. In particular he offers a commentary on how the idea of networks has been used to illustrate contemporary forms of socio-economic organization especially in the business sector and the markets.