Can industrial policy be market-ensuring (e.g. via antitrust or enforcement of property rights) and market-conforming (non-distorting)? Can it provide a political second-best solution by creating a smaller market distortion to prevent a larger one that results from political ferment? This paper explores issues of the definition of industrial policy, discusses market failure vs. government failu...

Can the American economy achieve sustainable prosperity --a progressive spreading of the benefits of economic growth to more and more people over a prolonged period of time? During the first half of the twentieth century, despite the debacle of the Great Depression, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful industrial nation. In the 1950s and 1960s the United States had not only by...

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Wear resistance of Cu–18 vol.% Nb (P/M) composites H. Nayeb-Hashemi a,∗, A. Vaziri b, K. Ziemer c a Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, United States b School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States c Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, Unite...

Background & Aims of the Study: Regarding to development of industry, soil contamination has become a serious problem in many countries, such as Iran. The aim of the present work was the illustration of the accumulation of potentially harmful trace elements and the potential risk which is posed to human health in surface soils of three industrial estates of Aran-o-Bidgol city, Isfah...