Talk:Post-Fordism

I'm working on the three main theories of p-fism to add here. In progress at: User:Halidecyphon/Post-fordism -- Halidecyphon 22:40, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. --Halidecyphon 23:49, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Does Storper and Walker belong in the Regulation School camp?
Thanks for posting this excellent summary of post-fordism in one page (quite a feat). I am wondering whether it may be better to categorized Michael Storper and Richard Walker in the Neo-schumpeterian group. Given the lengthy discussion in The Capitalist Imperative (1989) about disequillibrum growth, and the how industries have a developmental logic all their own (which is closely tied to technological change). I also read Storper's The Regional World in a simialr manner. In this book, as I read it, he argues that industrial complexes in "core regions" remain competitive by controlling the trajectory of technical change in a given industry. Industries located in non-core region or industrial complexes which fail to keep up technologically can be wiped off the map. All this smacks of "creative destruction" to me.

-BL
 * Hm I'll dig out my notes on them and check- you're probably right I expect. -Halidecyphon 08:45, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I've reviewed things and it seems we're both wrong. Micheal Storper at least is clearly associated with the flexible specialization school, he wrote with Allen Scott in the 80s about vertical disintegration and industrial districts (see eg Amin 1994 p24). I haven't read either of the Storper and Walker books you mentioned above, but it sounds to me like a flexible specialization argument to me- regional agglomeration and cooperation between small, flexible firms. I'm going to move Storper and Walker to flexible specialization for now, does this seem right to you? Really exciting to see that someone's actually interested in this stuff! -Halidecyphon 10:13, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Redirect from Smithian Growth
Why?? P-F has nothing to do with Smith; in fact it implies the opposite... --132.216.227.233 (talk) 16:00, 18 December 2009 (UTC)