Failure to Adjust (eBook)

How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy

Edward Alden (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
306 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-7261-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Failure to Adjust presents an especially timely analysis of the trade policies of the Obama administration, and discusses how America can reassert itself as the leader in setting rules for international economic competition that would spread the benefits of global trade and investment more broadly.

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Americans know that something has gone wrong in this country's effort to prosper in the face of growing global economic competition. The vast benefits promised by the supporters of globalization, and by their own government, have never materialized for most Americans. This book is the story of what went wrong, and how to correct the course. It is a compelling history of the last four decades of US economic and trade policies that have left Americans unable to adapt to or compete in the current global marketplace. Failure to Adjust argues that, despite the deep partisan divisions over how best to respond to America's competitive challenges, there is achievable common ground on such issues as fostering innovation, overhauling tax rules to encourage investment in the United States, boosting graduation rates, investing in infrastructure, and streamlining regulations. The federal government needs to become more like U.S. state governments in embracing economic competitiveness as a central function of government. The book presents an especially timely analysis of the trade policies of the Obama administration, and discusses how America can reassert itself as the leader in setting rules for international economic competition that would spread the benefits of global trade and investment more broadly.

Autor

Edward Alden is the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author of The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 9/11 (Harper, 2008), which was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments1 The End of the World’s Greatest Autarky2 Confronting the Competition: The Limitations of Trade Policy3 Confronting the Competition: How a Strong Dollar Has Hurt4 Investment: The Winners and the Losers from Offshoring5 Helping the Losers: The Tragedy of Trade Adjustment Assistance6 Tiger Moms and Failing Schools – The Competitive Challenge at Home7 How to Think About Economic Competitiveness8 A Strategy for Competing in a Globalized WorldNotesIndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2016
• Reihe/Serie: A Council on Foreign Relations Book
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Globalization • Trade Policy
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-7261-9 / 1442272619
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-7261-3 / 9781442272613