Capitalism, Consumption and Needs

226 helped to push industry into modernisation' . This argument, often used to account for the success of Swedish industry, is not one that can be settled in the realms of abstract theory. There seems no a priori reason to suppose that stronger unions and higher wages would not have had other effects, like more bankruptcies or greater offshore production . Ultimately, this is an empirical question . Fine and Harris are on stronger ground when they consider the positively perverse role of the military in the British economy . At a time when civilian industry is unable or unwilling to raise its technological platform, we find that over 50% of all public