The international politics of surplus capacity : competition for market shares in the world recession / / edited by Susan Strange and Roger Tooze

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910799956003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-99886-1; 1-136-99887-X; 1-282-97402-5; 9786612974021; 0-203-85562-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Revivals
• Altri autori (Persone): StrangeSusan <1923->; ToozeRoger
• Disciplina: 338.5144
• Soggetti: Export marketing; International economic relations; Surplus (Economics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in 1981 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Preface; Part One: Introduction; 1 States and Markets in Depression: Managing Surplus Industrial Capacity in the 1970s; Part Two: Perspectives on the Problem; 2 Interpreting Excess Capacity; 3 Contending Perspectives on the Problem of the Management of Surplus Capacity; 4 Recessions and the World Economic Order; 5 Tariffs as Constitutions; Part Three: Surplus Capacity by Sector; 6 Iron and Steel; 7 Textiles and Clothing; 8 Shipping and Shipbuilding; 9 Petrochemicals; 10 Banking and Insurance; Part Four: The Practice of Managing Surplus Capacity11 The Response of the European Community; 12 The American Steel Industry and International Competition; 13 Responses of a Multinational Corporation to the Problem of Surplus Capacity; Part Five: Policy Options; 14 American Views and Choices; 15 Prospects for the 1980s-a Japanese View; Part Six: Prescriptions; 16 An Alternative to Market-Sharing; 17 ; Restructuring out of Recession; 18 Government Responsibility for Industrial Restructuring; Part Seven: What Now?; 19 Conclusion: the Management of Surplus Capacity and International Political EconomyNotes on Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This important survey, first published in 1981, presents some different and often contending perceptions of the problem of surplus capacity as it re-emerged in the world of the 1980s - an economic climate with many parallels to the current era. Susan Strange and Roger Tooze deliberately assembled writers of many different nationalities, professional backgrounds and ideological convictions and asked them to make the case for their version of the problem. Some even doubt if there really is much of a problem at all. Others see it as fundamentally political, or monetary; as inherent in the capi