Rise of China

• Started in 1978 with communism abandoned? [
• Manufacturing is that of Europe and US combined - [1]

Source: [2]

• Why not bring some of it back? Service economy vs manufacturing - why did USA favor service and high tech over manufacturing?
• How did we get to the rise of the end of growth in the USA? Factors - see source from American Affairs [3]:
  • which sectors in the United States are seen as prestigious and which are not - solution: self-esteem to the Best and the Brightest.
  • false beliefs about the strengths of U.S. manufacturing; - what are these?
  • beliefs that a postindustrial future is both inevitable and desirable; - major anomie risk
  • policy decisions that promoted diffusing technologies globally and not domestic indus­trial strength; - wtf, wtf?
  • the DoD’s assumption that it would always have a robust industrial base to rely upon; - wherefrom the disconnect
  • hubris and insularity dating from the period when the United States was the unchallenged leader in mass manufacturing; - Only the Paranoid Survive
• financial market pressures; and the ideological and methodological limitations of mainstream economics.