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Title: a trip down memory lane
Review: This is a highly detailed account of US trade policy toward the semiconductor industry, most of which involved Japan, America's primary competitor in this industry during the 1980s. The book draws on extensive secondary source materials (mostly industry publications) and interviews conducted by the author. Flamm is not shy about criticizing the work of others with whom he disagrees (Laura Tyson and David Yoffie, for example), but oddly fails to cite others whose parallel analyses predate this book (i.e. Andrew Dick on forward pricing strategies or Fred Bergsten and Marcus Noland on the quantitative impact of the semiconductor trade agreement).
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