Prometheus 6

from James MacLean of Hobson's Choice

PART 2

Recently I wrote an oddly-structured essay that began with my extreme anxiety about current events, and turned immediately to the distantly related topic of US industrial management.

I think the problem is that the neoconservatives actually represent a tradition of industrial management from the USA. The "American System" of manufacturing emerged from the refining of petroleum and the production of machinery (which accounted for nearly all US exports from the late 19th century to the mid-20th); it involved firms that had a large, professional system of modular, bureaucratic management in distribution, development, and production. By the 1920's these industrial bureaucracies had replaced the old powerhouses of investment bankers.