Raising the leviathan

Michael S. Wynn-Williams

Chapter Chapter 1 in Surfing the Global Tide, 2009, pp 1-19 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Automobile manufacturing has grown into an industry so monstrous that it defines the twentieth century like no other human endeavor. It has shaped our society to the extent that it is now difficult to envisage what form the physical landscape would have taken without this network of highways that scar the scenery, linking disparate residential communities with places of work, recreation, and retail. The dependence on the automobile is now so great that if it were to disappear it would reduce many communities to crisis point as they became isolated from all that sustains them.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Automobile Industry; Vertical Integration; Automobile Company; Industry Leader (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230233591_1

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