ABSTRACT
Primarily concerned with how the US government can outwit its former allies in the rush to exploit their former common enemy. Considers the US sluggishness in technological innovation, flaws in education and labor management, the dangers of free trade, and resource depletion. Annotation copyright Bo
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |32 pages
How Can We Have Full Employment and Price Stability?
part |24 pages
The Question of Political Competence: MITI and AIM
chapter |16 pages
MITI and the Instrumentality of Economic Reform
chapter |6 pages
AIM
part |61 pages
How Can We Regain Technological Preeminence and Accelerate the Rise of American Industrial Productivity?
chapter |4 pages
Losing the Race
chapter |6 pages
Some Elements of the System
chapter |20 pages
Decline of the American System
chapter |14 pages
Policies
chapter |13 pages
Crisis
part |26 pages
How Can We Achieve Balanced International Trade?
chapter |5 pages
The Benefits of Trade
chapter |6 pages
The Continuum of Imbalance
chapter |6 pages
Finding Balance
chapter |6 pages
The International Flight of Cash Balances
part |19 pages
Is There a Preferred Alternative to a World System of International Free Trade?
chapter |3 pages
Options and Choices
chapter |4 pages
Comparison and Contrast
chapter |9 pages
Policy Implications
part |26 pages
What Policy Can Confront the Depletion and Ultimate Exhaustion of a Critical Natural Resource?