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

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.

List of contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments

1 The End of the World's Greatest Autarky
2 Confronting the Competition: The Limitations of Trade Policy
3 Confronting the Competition: How a Strong Dollar Has Hurt
4 Investment: The Winners and the Losers from Offshoring
5 Helping the Losers: The Tragedy of Trade Adjustment Assistance
6 Tiger Moms and Failing Schools - The Competitive Challenge at Home
7 How to Think About Economic Competitiveness
8 A Strategy for Competing in a Globalized World

Notes
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Edward Alden

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Alden, Alden Edward
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781538104798
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0479-8
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: A Council on Foreign Relations Book; Council on Foreign Relations; A Council on Foreign Relations Book
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, International Trade, Central government policies, International trade and commerce, globalization;trade policy