ABSTRACT

With the slowing down or ending of the postwar phrase of tranformational growth, the

usual Keynesian policies became less effective. Stronger medicine was needed-more,

rather than less, government intervention. But popular opinion ran the other way.

Aggressive internationally oriented business, faced with maturing markets at home,

wanted the option of moving its capital investments abroad, where growth promised to be

faster, and did not want to be hampered in this by the kinds of regulatory controls a