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[Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal] the oddity was that Toyota and/or the Toyoda family owned most of the parts suppliers, so what was the point of shoving the inventory overhead back out of the plant and down the road? My thought was, and is, that the thing that mattered was the simple paying of attention to everything that this sort of "formal" inventory asceticism forces on everyone in the joint.

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