Industrial Policies After 2000

Industrial Policies after 2000 investigates industrial policy during a time of deregulation, privatization and a growing interest in small government. This book brings together scholarship from different countries, different institutional contexts, and different theoretical perspectives. That includes the neoclassical `market' approach, game theoretical models, and institutional economics.

1 Introduction: Industrial Policy; Issues, Theories and Instruments.- 2 The Theoretical Analysis of Industrial Policy.- 3 The Implications of Globalization for Industrial, Trade, and Innovation Policies.- 4 Comprehensive Industrial Policies and the Contemporary Coordination Nexus.- 5 A Simple Theory of Cooperative Industrial Policy. Model Building and Practical Experience.- 6 Industrial Policy, Industrial Change and Institutional Inertia.- 7 Strategic Trade and International Competition Policy175.- 8 Policy Implications of Purely Strategic Mergers.- 9 Contracts and Costs in a Corporate/Government System Dynamics Network: A United States Case.- 10 Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), Employment Creation, and Industrial Policy.- 11 Policies for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs).- 12 Regional Paths of Institutional Anchoring in the Global Economy. The Case of the North-East of England and Aragón.- 13 Anything New in Industrial Policy? — Myths and Empirical Facts. The Case of some German Regions.- 14 An Industrial Policy Agenda 2000 and Beyond — Experience, Theory and Policy.