Manufacturing Your Way to the Top

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In his new book Make It In America, Andrew Liveris, Chairman and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company, calls for a national strategy to revive manufacturing.

We need manufacturing jobs if we are to keep a growing population busy and start paying off our debts to the rest of the world.  Some Americans imagine that we can thrive by continuing to dream up gadgets like iPhones and Kindles while letting the Chinese do all the tedious work of making the products themselves.

 Mr. Liveris disagrees.  Learn more on why he disagrees and about his new book here and here.

Posted by:  Laurel Delaney for The Global Small Business Blog