Selling Our Security - Softcover

Tolchin, Martin; Tolchin, Susan J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014023120X ISBN 13: 9780140231205

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1993

Synopsis

A look at how U.S. government officials are allowing American businesses to sell off security and technological assets to foreign-owned companies details the greed, corruption, ineptitude, and political folly that have made the United States vulnerable. Tour.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

As American manufacturers of critical technologies (e.g., semiconductors, robotics, energy, biotechnology) are increasingly taken over by foreign investors, the U.S. is in grave danger of losing its technological edge and becoming dependent on overseas suppliers, assert the authors of Buying into America (he is a New York Times Washington correspondent; she is a professor of public administration at George Washington University). Indicting current policies as shortsighted, they clearly demonstrate through case studies that ownership matters crucially in the areas of product design, engineering and "intellectual property." Faulting the Bush administration for inertia, the Tolchins spell out an agenda to preserve America's critical technologies, including tougher trade policies, subsidies to jeopardized firms and a stronger government role in protecting and integrating critical industries. This hard-hitting report on an issue of vital interest to American prosperity and security will surely stir debate.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 014023120X
• ISBN 13: 9780140231205
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448