Many schools still follow an old model focused on preparing workers for an industrial economy.
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We took an agricultural economy and transformed it into an industrial economy, then into an information economy.
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Equal weighting is a biased, even a skewed view, for no impact on the changing nature of an industrial economy is detected until a rebalancing takes place.
America is no longer an industrial economy.
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What we can be sure is that the growth of sophisticated financial systems will continue to play an important role in fashioning the changes in all of our lives, including funding (often speculatively) the technologies that have transformed our world already from an agricultural to an industrial economy, and are now perhaps shaping the first post-industrial information economy.
And so as people were moving off the farms, moving into the cities, moving into industry, suddenly they were able to get the training and the skills they needed for an advanced industrial economy.
Cities like Sao Paulo are designed for an industrial age while the urban economy has become 85% related to services.
Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over a country with a third-rate army, ordered an industrial transformation of the American economy on a scale that seemed simply out of reach, with the focused, urgent aim of defeating the Nazis.
The high tech manufacturing jobs we are creating in the U.S. are ramping up an industrial base that is critical to our economy and national defense.
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Because we are in an information economy, rather than an industrial one, pursuing growth of industrial jobs today is as misguided as trying to preserve manual labor and farm jobs was in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Our knowledge economy is producing alarmism on an industrial scale and the siren call to avoid this or that risk is ceaseless.
In Brazil, where it is often said that an activist industrial policy helps to explain why the economy has been thriving, a surging state-owned development bank, BNDES, is probably crowding out other sources of finance (see article).
But it is also a social and economic good, particularly as we move from an American-centric industrial to a global-knowledge economy.
The government should launch "an industrial Olympics" to help encourage sustained growth in the economy, the CBI business organisation has said.
"I'm constantly searching for an economy of means, which is probably how most industrial designers think, " she said.
Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale McDonaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history.
By 1936, industrial production surpassed its 1929 peak, an indication that the backbone of the economy trumped the stock market.
The rapid expansion has raised concerns about whether Winterkorn and his boss, Supervisory Board Chairman Ferdinand Piech, have overindulged, amassing an industrial empire that is too complex to manage efficiently, especially in a fragile economy.
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Across town, the abandoned detritus of an industrial past and the ugly scars of the coal mines that still drive the archipelago's economy sit uneasily against the backdrop of a pristine wilderness protected by some of the world's strictest environmental legislation.
Treviso's economy is diversified, however, and jobs are not yet an issue in Carpi, where neat industrial estates and the city's shops exude well being.
Meanwhile, the fall in Germany's stockmarket, which last year was steeper than in any other big, rich economy, has cut the value of their remaining industrial holdings, taking the stuffing out of an old cushion against hard conditions.
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