{"id":4029,"date":"2011-07-08T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2011-07-08T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T01:00:27","slug":"making-it-in-america-a-man-and-a-firm-with-a-plan-to-revive-american-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4029","title":{"rendered":"Making it in America A man and a firm with a plan to revive American manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/18929108?story_id=18929108\">The Economist:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cTHE remarkable juxtaposition of American heartland, Midwest values and a whole lot of foreign accents\u201d is what makes Midland, Michigan, a beacon of hope for the country\u2019s manufacturing sector, reckons Andrew Liveris. His is one of those accents, though he no longer sounds crocodile-wrestlingly Australian. The boss of Dow Chemical has lived on and off for years in the company town that grew up around the brine wells that Herbert Dow first tapped in 1897 for his pioneering electrolysis process. The chemical firm still employs 5,500 of the town\u2019s 42,000 inhabitants. (The second-biggest employer is Dow Corning, a silicone-making joint venture.) Dow\u2019s success has delivered the nice homes, good schools and ball parks that make up the American Dream.<\/p>\n<p>Like many immigrants, Mr Liveris shares that dream. But he now fears it is under threat. He has become one of the leading voices calling on the American government to embrace industrial policy. Last July Dow launched a plan to revive American manufacturing, which Mr Liveris then expanded into a book, \u201cMake It In America\u201d. On June 24th President Barack Obama appointed him co-chair of a new \u201cAdvanced Manufacturing Partnership\u201d that brings together government, academia and business to \u201cbuild a roadmap\u201d for a more competitive manufacturing sector.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist: \u201cTHE remarkable juxtaposition of American heartland, Midwest values and a whole lot of foreign accents\u201d is what makes Midland, Michigan, a beacon of hope for the country\u2019s manufacturing sector, reckons Andrew Liveris. His is one of those accents, though he no longer sounds crocodile-wrestlingly Australian. The boss of Dow Chemical has lived on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}