Technology and the American Economic Transition: Choices for the Future

摘要

The report examines basic U.S. policy choices made necessary by profound changes in America's technological base, changes in international trade, changes in resource costs, and changes in American tastes. The report does this by describing the performance of the U.S. economy as a set of complex networks linking manufacturing and service enterprises to deliver goods and services to American consumers, and by describing how choices made about the management of these networks could affect the quality of American life during the next two decades.