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...Amitai Etzioni...
...experience of these tripartite groups has been mixed to date. Labor leaders find the concept appealing, although they would like such commissions to be policymaking rather than just advisory. Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, who coined the term reindustrialization and has done perhaps the most work on the subject, believes that three or four of these groups might be useful; but he is skeptical about their widespread use. Some businessmen, on the other hand, believe that tripartite committees offer the illusion of progress, but actually result in more bureaucracy and few changes...
...emphasize the Government's role in industrial policy, former White House Adviser Amitai Etzioni, a renowned sociologist, coined the word reindustrialization. That jawbreaker was given cachet by Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft and quickly became a favorite of Capitol Hill trendmakers...
...Etzioni's miracle drug has some painful side effects. He is calling for a decade of restraint in personal consumption and the redirection of national resources to halt productivity declines and reduce inflation. The ten-year cost: a stunning $6 trillion, or more than twice the current annual production of all goods and services...
Patriotism should have higher ambitions. Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni sees the current stirrings as a fitful groping toward some kind of national unity. The most significant symptom he detects is the jump in the proportions of voters casting ballots in the primaries this year. Because of Iran and Afghanistan, says Etzioni, "we have what I call a hinge effect. All projections up to that point have to be redone. We largely put behind us the Viet Nam complex. This is the turning point in political apathy. We had a decade and a half of retreat from institutions, identity, directions...