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Economist at Columbia, studying industrial development.
Dec 19, 2023 13 tweets 6 min read
ICYMI: Video from our New Thinking in Industrial Policy conference (Nov. 10) is available
on the @ColumbiaSIPA YouTube channel: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
The talks, turnout (standing room only!), and vibe were fabulous. Some highlights. 🧵
1/N x.com/EricVerhoogen/… Erica Fuchs (Carnegie-Mellon) reported on the work of the National Network for Critical Technology Assessment (nncta.org), which has been laying the groundwork for a US national technology strategy.
youtube.com/watch?v=LDwPm8…
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Aug 8, 2019 10 tweets 3 min read
I’ve just read Wrecked, a new book on the decline of the US auto industry by sociologists Joshua Murray and Michael Schwartz, and like it a lot. Let me try to write a thread about why. 1/n The conventional understanding is that “flexible production” (just-in-time inventory management, collaborative relationships with suppliers, workers engaged in innovation process) is something invented by Toyota post-WWII. 2/n