Selling our security : the erosion of America's assets / Martin and Susan J. Tolchin.

Author/creator Tolchin, Martin
Other author Tolchin, Susan J.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Knopf, 1992.
Descriptionxiii, 427 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents From slingshots to computer chips : why technology is destiny and what America can do about it -- Shooting down the Goodyear blimp : how we defend the defense industrial base from foreign raiders -- Exon-Florio : the unused weapon -- The eyes of the dragonfly : the FSX, technological giveaway or model for the future? -- Computer chips or potato chips : Perkin-Elmer and the critical-industries debate -- Realeconomik :the convergence of national security and economic interdependence -- Gulf lessons : from smart bombs to smart policies -- A matter of degree: why Her Majesty's government reduced the Kuwaiti investment in British Petroleum -- Selling our science : foreign corporations and the universities -- The casino economy : why America isn't investing in its critical technologies, and other anomalies of globalism -- America the vulnerable : Go-video and the dilemma of global cartelization -- Global strategies.
General note"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [390]-406) and index.
LCCN 92004499
ISBN0394583094 :

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HC110.T4 T65 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold