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Publication Date: June 1982
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Richard B. McKenzie
Research Area: Manufacturing and industry
Type: Report
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is t o analyze the economic and political case-for plant-closing restrictions by specifically dealing with three central contentions.of its proponents. First, firms are closing profitable plants. Second, firms are "ruining" otherwise profitable plants by using them as "cash cows" (the meaning of which will become apparent). Third, the modern wave of industry conglomeration has reduced the ties of firms to the communities in which their plants are located and, consequently, has led to the closing of plants that, in the absence of the conglomerate movement, would have remained viable concerns.