In Praise of Hard Industries
Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the key to Future Prosperity
by Eamonn Fingleton · first published 1999
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"In this challenge to conventional wisdom, Eamonn Fingleton takes aim at the information economy's claim to have superseded manufacturing as the engine of America's future prosperity. Fingleton exposes startling flaws in the current view that the United States can be preeminent in the global economy by focusing exclusively on so-called postindustrial businesses such as finance, computer software, Internet services, and entertainment."--BOOK JACKET. "In Praise of Hard Industries offers an authoritative and deeply disturbing counterargument to the many unexamined assumptions and glibly misstate
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If you want a far more detailed discussion, especially one that goes into why it can't work, see Eamonn Fingleton's book Unsustainable (or the earlier version In Praise of Hard Industries, there is little difference between them). And if you want a good story about specifically how innovation grows out of practice, see Bob Johnstone's We Were Burning about the Japanese development of…
on “Thomas Friedman Wrong? The Innovation Delusion” ↗…Suck".[1] By a Navy SEAL with a masochistic streak. SEALs are selected for people who will keep going while suffering, but this guy is into the suffering as an end in itself. The industrial version: "In Praise of Hard Industries".[2] [1] https://www.amazon.com/Embrace-Suck-Navy-SEAL-Extraordinary/... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Praise-Hard-Industries-Manufacturing-...
on “On doing hard things” ↗