Failure to Adjust - How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Edward Alden, Edward H. Alden, Alden Edward
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781442272606
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7260-6
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: A Council on Foreign Relations Book; Council on Foreign Relations B; A Council on Foreign Relations Book; Council on Foreign Relations B; Council on Foreign Relations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Globalization, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, globalization;trade policy