European Advanced Technology: A Programme for Integration

First edition, first impression.  294, [2]pp.  Green cloth-covered boards with gilt stamped lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth slightly rounded at spine ends.  A little dustiness to text block edges.  Previously owner’s name boldly pencilled on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original matte dust wrapper, not price clipped, rubbed and bumped on edges, a little sunned over spine and rear panel.  

An examination of the political and economic challenges facing Europe as a result of American technological dominance in the 1960s, putting forward a plan for European nations to collectively counter what was called at the time ‘the technology gap’, with sector specific reviews of early multilateral economic collaborations in high-stake industries such as electronics and space technology, nuclear power, aircraft manufacture and communication.  Layton, a strong proponent of British membership of Common Market a decade earlier, was an economic and industrial consultant.