Make It In America (PDF)

The case for revolutionizing the U.S. economy, from a leading
CEO

America used to define itself by the things we built. We
designed and produced the world's most important innovations, and
in doing so, created a vibrant manufacturing sector that
established the middle class. We manufactured our way to the top
and became the undisputed economic leader of the world. But over
the last several decades, and especially in the last ten years, the
sector that was America's great pride has eroded, costing us
millions of jobs and putting our long-term prosperity at risk. Now,
as we struggle to recover from the worst recession in generations,
our only chance to turn things around is to revive the American
manufacturing sector--and to revolutionize it. In Make It
in America: The Case for Reinventing the Economy, Andrew
Liveris--Chairman and CEO of The Dow Chemical
Company--offers a thoughtful and passionate argument that
America's future economic growth and prosperity depends on the
strength of its manufacturing sector.

* The book explains how a manufacturing sector creates economic
value on a scale unmatched by any other, and how central the sector
is to creating jobs both inside and outside the factory

* Explores how other nations are building their manufacturing
sectors to stay competitive in the global economy, and describes
how America has failed to keep up

* Provides an aggressive, practical, and comprehensive agenda
that will put the U.S. back on track to lead the world

It's time to stop accepting as inevitable the shuttering of
factories and staggering job losses that have come to define
manufacturing. It's time to acknowledge the cost of inaction. There
is no better company to make the case for reviving U.S.
manufacturing than The Dow Chemical Company, one of the world's
largest manufacturers and most global corporations. And there's no
better book to show why it needs to be done and how to do it than
Make It in America.