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12%OFFDaniel Madar - Big Steel: Technology, Trade, and Survival in a Global Market - 9780774816663 - V9780774816663
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Big Steel: Technology, Trade, and Survival in a Global Market

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Description for Big Steel: Technology, Trade, and Survival in a Global Market Paperback. Big Steel examines trade, competition, and survival in a key industry under globalizing pressures. Num Pages: 248 pages, figures. BIC Classification: KCP; KNJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.

Steel is the mainstay of the world’s major industries. Worldsteel production has grown dramatically as countries industrialize andadd their own steel-producing capacity. China’s prodigiousexpansion of steel output increases the industry’s naturalvulnerability to oversupply and volatile prices.

Big Steel explores how the integrated steel industry isadapting to trade and international competition. These arise from theindustry’s diffusion beyond its historical core in North Americaand Europe. To show how this occurred, Big Steel applies PaulKrugman’s Nobel-Prize-winning explanation of industrial locationand trade. The industry’s technology and economic structure, andthe pricing strategies available, produce fateful competition andincentives to consolidate internationally. Examining theindustry’s survival options, including ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774816663
SKU
V9780774816663
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Daniel Madar
Daniel Madar is a professor of political science atBrock University and author of Heavy Traffic: Deregulation, Trade,and Transformation in North American Trucking.

Reviews for Big Steel: Technology, Trade, and Survival in a Global Market
"Big Steel explores an industry that has been in near continual transformation for a generation or more and captures the shape and structure of these changes. Perhaps even more significantly, it makes the case that developments in the new millennium denote a new phase in the global steel business, which portends even more dramatic changes of behaviour and performance. - ... Read more

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