National Competitiveness in a Global Economy / / ed. by William P. Avery, David P. Rapkin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• HerausgeberIn: Avery, William P.,; Rapkin, David P.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bernard, Mitchell,; Clark, Cal,; Cohen, Stephen D.,; Golich, Vicki L.,; Kohno, Masaru,; Kudrle, Robert T.,; Nakatani, Iwao,; Rapkin, David P.,; Ravenhill, John,; Reich, Simon,; Sandholtz, Wayne,; Strand, Jonathan R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: International Political Economy Yearbook ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (285 p.)

The authors examine the causes and consequences across time and differing countries of changes in national economic competitiveness and look at US and European responses to the perceived competitive challenge posed by East Asian capitalism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Competitiveness: Useful Concept, Political Slogan, or Dangerous Obsession? -- 2 Does the United States Have an International Competitiveness Problem? -- 3 Sources of Competitive Asymmetries Between the United States and Japan -- 4 Ideology and Competitiveness: The Basis for U.S. and Japanese Economic Policies -- 5 The Pursuit of Competitiveness in East Asia: Regionalization of Production and Its Consequences -- 6 The Limits on Hegemonic Predation as a Response to Competitiveness Problems: The United States and Taiwan -- 7 Fairness, Efficiency, and Opportunism in U.S. Trade and Investment Policy -- 8 Alternative Paths to Competitiveness: U.S. Trade Policies in International Air Transport Services and Commercial Class Aircraft Manufacturing -- 9 Ideas and Foreign Policy: The Emergence of Techno- Nationalism in U.S. Policies Toward Japan -- 10 Cooperating to Compete: The European Experiment -- References -- Index -- About the Book and the Editors