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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Edward Alden, Alden Edward
• Edition: Rowman and Littlefield
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781538104798
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0479-8
• Pages: 268
• Thèmes: A Council on Foreign Relations Book; Council on Foreign Relations; A Council on Foreign Relations Book
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; 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