Opportunity Knocks: American Economic Policy After Gorbachev

by Robert A. Solo

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315489070
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	491 KB

About the Author

Robert A. Solo

Table of Contents

Part 1 How Can We Have Full Employment and Price Stability?; Chapter 1 Policy Revisited; Chapter 2 Questions; Chapter 3 Answers; Part 2 The Question of Political Competence: MITI and AIM; Chapter 4 MITI and the Instrumentality of Economic Reform; Chapter 5 AIM; Part 3 How Can We Regain Technological Preeminence and Accelerate the Rise of American Industrial Productivity?; Chapter 6 Losing the Race; Chapter 7 Some Elements of the System; Chapter 8 Decline of the American System; Chapter 9 Policies; Chapter 10 Crisis; Part 4 How Can We Achieve Balanced International Trade?; Chapter 11 The Benefits of Trade; Chapter 12 The Continuum of Imbalance; Chapter 13 Finding Balance; Chapter 14 The International Flight of Cash Balances; Part 5 Is There a Preferred Alternative to a World System of International Free Trade?; Chapter 15 Options and Choices; Chapter 16 Comparison and Contrast; Chapter 17 Policy Implications; Part 6 What Policy Can Confront the Depletion and Ultimate Exhaustion of a Critical Natural Resource?; Chapter 18 Perceptions; Chapter 19 Problems and Policies; Chapter 20 Survival;