Make It In America: The Case for Re-Inventing the EconomyISBN: 978-0-470-93022-9
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240 pages
January 2011
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Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Rise and Fall 11
How We Fell Out of Love with
Manufacturing 14
The Multiplier Effect 19
Manufacturing Tomorrow 22
Surviving the Crisis 25
A Tale of Two Nations 27
Chapter 2 Separating What Can't Be Separated 31
The Truth about the Manufacturing Crisis 36
Adding Value the Only Way We Can 40
Trying to Survive on Ideas Alone 44
Where Manufacturing Goes, the Ideas Follow 49
Chapter 3 Fighting Offshoring 53
Should I Stay or Should I Go? 56
It Isn’t What You Think 59
Taxing Problems 63
Funding the Future 67
Regulating Our Way into a Muddle 69
Trading Our Way to Prosperity 73
Chapter 4 Energy Drives the World 81
A Big Energy Bill, and Not Just for Power 82
The New New 87
Germany's Green Miracle 91
China's Green Revolution 94
America Can't Compete 98
Chapter 5 Building Tomorrow 103
Education: "A Permanent National Recession" 105
Developing the Right Skills for the New
Workplace 109
Preventing a Worker Shortage 111
What America Doesn't Understand That Other Nations Do 114
The Tortoise and the Hare 117
A New Foundation of Infrastructure 118
Funding the Future 124
Chapter 6 Built to Compete 129
An Ambitious Agenda 132
Changing the Way We Tax 134
National Incentive Strategy 136
Regulatory Policy 137
Everyone Needs Good Trading Partners 141
Chapter 7 The Long Game 145
The Human Element: Education and Immigration 147
Innovation and Competitiveness 154
Chapter 8 The Fork in the Road 163
Epilogue 175
Bibliography 189
About the Author 213
About The Dow Chemical Company 215
Index 217
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