Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. International Competitiveness
  • U.S. International Competitiveness in a Changing Global Economy
  • 1. What Do We Mean by Competitiveness?
  • 2. Indicators of U.S. Economic Performance
  • 2.1 Aggregate Trade Balances
  • 2.2 Technology and Trade
  • 2.3 Investments in Science and Technology
  • 2.4 U.S. Shares in Global Markets
  • 2.5 Wage Trends
  • 2.6 Trends in Growth
  • 2.7 Growth of Service Employment
  • 3. Macroeconomic Roots of the U.S. Trade Deficit
  • 3.1 The Role of the U.S. Deficit
  • 3.2 Supply of Foreign Funds
  • 3.3 Stock Adjustments and Continuing Flows3.4 Correcting the Aggregate Imbalance
  • 3.5 Taxing Capital Imports
  • 4. Looking Ahead
  • Structural Impediments to International Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
  • 1. Contours of the Domestic Market Growth Path
  • 2. Sources of Crisis
  • 3. Structural Impediments to Adaptation
  • 3.1 Keynesian Demand Management
  • 3.2 Savings Habits
  • 3.3 Education
  • 3.4 Anti-Trust Laws
  • 3.5 Financial System
  • 3.6 Economic Regulation
  • 3.7 Job-Control Unionism
  • 3.8 Supplier-Assembler Relations
  • 4. Fragility of the Efforts for Change4.1 Demise of Job-Control Unionism
  • 4.2 Intra-Industry Cooperation
  • 4.3 Southern Trends
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Japan-U.S. Relations: The 1980s and Beyond
  • 1. 1981â€?1987: Creating a Crisis
  • 2. Looking Ahead: Three Perspectives on U.S.-Japan Relations
  • Part II. The Shaping of Foreign Trade Policy
  • The “Interaction Mechanismâ€? Between Congress and the President in Making U.S. Foreign Trade Policy
  • 1. The Development of the “Interaction Mechanismâ€?
  • 1.1 The Legacy of Smoot-Hawley: A Warning for Decades to Come
  • 1.2 Bilateralism and Reciprocity: 1934â€?19451.3 The Hegemonic Period: 1945â€?1962
  • 1.4 The Kennedy Round: 1962â€?1967
  • 1.5 The “Interaction Mechanismâ€? at the End of the Kennedy Round
  • 2. Interlude: Changes in the 1970s
  • 3. The “Interaction Mechanismâ€? in the 1970s
  • 3.1 The Trade Act of 1974
  • 3.2 The Trade Act of 1979
  • 4. The Reagan Administration
  • 4.1 The Trade Act of 1984
  • 4.2 Reciprocity Bills
  • 4.3 Outlook: The Trade Act of 1988
  • Neoconservatism and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Case of Foreign Trade
  • 1. American Foreign Policy and the Rise of Neoconservatism1.1 Patterns of U.S. Foreign Policy
  • 1.2 The Coming of the Neoconservative Foreign Policy Agenda
  • 2. Interest and Ideology: Neoconservative Foreign Trade Positions
  • 2.1 General Outlook
  • 2.2 East-West Trade
  • 2.3 Trade with Western Nations
  • 3. Conclusions
  • Part III. U.S.-Canadian Relations
  • Canadian Defence Policy and Economic Relations with the United States, 1939â€?1988: An Overview
  • 1. Historical Background, 1945â€?1984
  • 1.1 Military and Economic Cooperation, 1939â€?1950