We've been treated to various versions of manufacturing in the past couple of decades. There's manufacturing as an exercise in financial arbitrage - a link in a global supply chain that is reforged whenever and wherever people will do more work for less pay. There's the maker movement, populated by hordes of entrepreneurs laboring away in shared shops. There's Industry 4.0, where we inefficient humans need not apply. There's the revitalized rust belt, polished to a mirror's shine with tariffs. And now there's Tuck School of Business professor Richard D'Aveni's vision of manufacturing, detailed at length in The Pan-Industrial Revolution, a book that starts out strong but eventually bogs down in speculation.
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