Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems 
Toward a New Era in U.S. Manufacturing [PDF ebook] 
The Need for a National Vision

This book is a roadmap to help organizations adopt corporate responsibility and sustainability practices and be fit for purpose in a digital era. It explains why corporate responsibility is the only …

The world economy today is at an historical inflection point. The neoclassical (industrial) model of economics is self-destructing while a new life-mimicking model, based on radically different assum …

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Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy, now in its fourteenth edition, continues to be the leading text for one-semester courses in labor economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. …

This very concise and straightforward book is aimed at top executives in virtually any industry who are either new to the concept of Lean and its benefits to them or who have stalled in their transfo …

The retail sector is an integral part of a national economy. From the political economy perspective, all consumer goods have surplus values locked up in them; the surplus values are not realized unti …

Achieve any cost goals in half the time and achieve stable production with quality designed in right-the-first-time.　 Design for Manufacturability: How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develo …