The Rise of the Rest: A Presentation

The following is a presentation I gave to colleagues at the Kennedy School on a book called "The Rise of the Rest: Challenges to the West from Late Industrializing Economies". The book examines how latecomers caught up in an environment in which knowledge was difficult to access and constituted an entry barrier of incumbent firms. It analyzes the general properties of “pure learning,” or industrializing “late,” on the initial basis of technologies that were already commercialized by firms from other countries.

"After World War II a handful of countries outside the North Atlantic—”the rest”—rose to the ranks of world-class competitors in a wide range of mid-technology industries. National incomes soared at unprecedented rates and per capita incomes doubled within decades." _A.H. Amsden