 | Howard M. Wachtel - Business & Economics - 1990 - 308 pages
...disinvestment in the nation's basic productive capacity ..." where "financial resources . . . [have] been diverted from productive investment in our basic national industries into unproductive speculation, mergers and acquisitions, and foreign investment."6 As the number of manufacturing jobs... | |
 | M. Gottdiener - Social Science - 1994 - 348 pages
...Bluestone and Harrison suggest: Controversial as it may be, the essential problem with the US economy can be traced to the way capital — in the forms...in our basic national industries into unproductive speculation, mergers, and acquisitions, and foreign investment. Left behind are shuttered factories,... | |
 | Barbara Kranendonk - Business & Economics - 1997 - 174 pages
...widespread, systematic disinvestment in the nation's basic productive capacity. . . . Capital . . . has been diverted from productive investment in our basic national industries into unproductive speculation, mergers and acquisitions, and foreign investment. Left behind are shuttered factories,... | |
 | S. Craig Watkins - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 336 pages
...of labor. 10. Bluestone and Harrison (1982, 6) posit that the "essential problem with the US economy can be traced to the way capital — in the forms...real plant and equipment — has been diverted from the productive investment in our basic national industries into unproductive speculation, mergers and... | |
 | Max H. Kirsch - Business & Economics - 1998 - 176 pages
...us, is the way "capital—in the forms of financial resources and of real plant and equipment—has been diverted from productive investment in our basic national industries into unproductive speculation, mergers and acquisitions, and foreign investment" (1982:6). The switch from corporate... | |
 | Jefferson Cowie, Joseph Heathcott - Business & Economics - 2003 - 396 pages
...disinvestment in the nation's basic productive capacity." At the core of the problem, they argued, was the way "capital — in the forms of financial resources...in our basic national industries into unproductive speculation, mergers and acquisitions, and foreign investment." They explained that all of this was... | |
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Controversial as it may be, the essential problem with the US economy can be traced to the way capital — in the forms of financial resources and of real plant and equipment — has been diverted from productive investment in our basic national industries... 