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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     DiMicco, Dan.     Subjects     Manufacturing industries -- United States.     Industrial policy -- United States.     Job creation -- United States.     United States -- Economic policy.     Browse Catalog     by author:      DiMicco, Dan.       by title:      American made : why ...         MARC Display

American made : why making things will return us to greatness / Dan DiMicco. by DiMicco, Dan. New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Subjects Manufacturing industries -- United States.   Industrial policy -- United States.   Job creation -- United States.   United States -- Economic policy. Electronic Resource http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/798/9781137279798/image/lgcover.9781137279798.jpg ISBN:  9781137279798 (hardback) : 1137279796 (hardback) Description:  246 pages illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  The economic crisis and missed opportunities -- No more moonshots (or, how the United States won the space race and stopped racing) -- Distorted trade and the rise of the false economy -- Against irrational defeatism -- The myth of free trade -- The myth of the innovation economy and the "skills gap" -- More myths that distract us: And what to do about them -- Where we go from here: Rebuilding the backbone of the U.S. economy -- Where we go next: Tapping our energy resources -- Where the road leads: Restoring American manufacturing, innovation, and competitiveness. Requests:  0 Summary:  "American manufacturing is on life support--at least, that's what most people think. The exodus of jobs to China and other foreign markets is irreversible, and anything that is built here requires specialized skills the average worker couldn't hope to gain. Not so, says Dan Dimicco, chairman and former CEO of Nucor, America's largest steel company. He not only revived a major US manufacturing firm during a recession, but helped galvanize the flagging domestic steel industry when many of his competitors were in bankruptcy or headed overseas. In American Made, he takes to task the politicians, academics, and political pundits who, he contends, are exacerbating fears and avoiding simple solutions for the sake of nothing more than their own careers, and contrasts them with the postwar leaders who rebuilt Europe and Japan, put a man on the moon, and kept communism at bay. We need leaders of such resolve today, he argues, who can tackle a broken job-creation engine by restoring manufacturing to its central role in the U.S. economy--and cease creating fictitious "service businesses" where jobs evaporate after a year or two, as in a Ponzi scheme. With his trademark bluntness, Dimicco tackles the false promise of green jobs and the hidden costs of outsourcing. Along the way, he shares the lessons he's learned about good leadership, crisis management, and the true meaning of innovation, and maps the road back to robust economic growth, middle-class prosperity, and American competitiveness. "--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.4767 DiMicco Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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