Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development

Abstract

FIGURES2.1 International configuration of national Fordisms in the "First" and "Third" Worlds 2.2 Monetary systems dynamics 6.1 Economics of multiproduction from the Marshall effect to the Baumol effect 6.2 Flexible technology: long-term impact of firm capacity strategy 6.3 Economies of organization: content and nature 6.4 The Japanese revolution in product management: linearization and flexible work standards 6.5 Technical flexibility and product life cycles: four basic strategies 6.6 Leaming and experience curves 6.7 Origin of productivity gains and form of competition: a typology 6.8 The quality skills model 7.1 Mass production curve 8.1 Right cumulated distribution (Sector 1) 8.2 Right cumulated distribution (Sector 2) 8.3 Right cumulated distribution (Sector 3) 8.4 Right cumulated distribution (Sector 4) 8.5 Right cumulated distribution 14.1 The domains of action of unemployment and productivity conventions 14.2 Four models of labor conventions 14.3 Economic fluctuations and flexibility of labor 291 17.1 Post-Fordist industrial relations 17.2 Post-Fordist industrial organization Vll TABLES 2.1 Capital productivity growth (195~4) 2.2 Phases of growth in industrialized countries 2.3 Growth rates of GDP, GDP per capita, and volume of exports 2.4 The structure of the US balance of payment after World War II ($billions; aggregated balances) 2.5 Long-term interest rates 5.1 Japan'sexportdependence1935-87 5.2 Productivity and wages in Japanese manufacturing (annual percentage increase in each five years) 5.3 Wage disparity between different sizes of manufacturing enterprises 8.1 Deviations of actual aggregate size distributions from implied OLS estimate.ofPareto distribution 15.1 Centers promoted by public authorities providing services to small and medium-sized firms in the regions of Italy