New forces in the world economy /

ROBERTS BRAD

New forces in the world economy / edited by Brad Roberts. - Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1996. - ix, 437 p. ; 23 cm. - A Washington quarterly reader . - Washington quarterly reader. .

Articles previously published between 1990-1996 in The Washington quarterly.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Looming Collision of Capitalisms? / Economics and National Strategy: Convergence, Global Networks, and Cooperative Competition / Modular Multilateralism: North-South Economic Relations in the 1990s / Greater China: A New Economic Colossus? / Democracy and Global Economic Growth / The Post-Uruguay Round Free Trade Debate / Competitiveness: Here to Stay / Krugmanian Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obfuscation / Trade, Investment, and Engagement in the U.S. East Asian Relationship / Who's Benefiting Whom? A Trade Agenda for High-Technology Industries / Trade and the Environment / The Natural Resource Wars: Let Them Eat Trees / Brad Roberts -- Erik R. Peterson -- James R. Golden -- Richard E. Feinberg and Delia M. Boylan -- Murray Weidenbaum -- John D. Sullivan -- Ernest H. Preeg -- Daniel F. Burton, Jr. -- Ernest H. Preeg -- Thomas J. Duesterberg -- Ernest H. Preeg -- Kenneth Berlin and Jeffrey M. Lang -- Richard E. Bissell -- Trade Battles as Investment Wars: The Coming Roles of Origin Debate / Engineering Regional Trade Pacts to Keep Trade and U.S. Prosperity on a Fast Track / Toward Free Trade and Investment in the Asia-Pacific / The Depth of Economic Integration between Mexico and the United States / U.S. Policy, Brazil, and the Southern Cone / Prospects for an EU-NAFTA Free Trade Agreement / Surrending to Markets / Risk and Volatility / Is It a Yen or a Dollar Crisis in the Currency Market? / Goodbye, G-7 / The Japan-U.S. Bilateral Relationship: Its Role in the Global Economy / Governing Global Finance / Reengineering Regulation: Maintaining the Competitiveness of U.S. Capital Markets / Jeri Jensen-Moran -- Paula Stern and Raymond Paretzky -- Gary Hufbauer and Jeffrey J. Schott -- Sidney Weintraub -- Georges Fauriol and Sidney Weintraub -- Thomas J. Duesterberg -- Erik R. Peterson -- Roy C. Smith -- David D. Hale -- W. R. Smyser -- Raymond Vernon -- Ethan B. Kapstein -- J. Carter Beese, Jr. -- The Bundesbank: America's German Central Bank / U.S. Policy Toward the Multilateral Development Banks / Promoting Higher Labor Standards / International Firms and National Governments: Some Dilemmas / W. R. Smyser -- Donald R. Sherk -- Steve Charnovitz -- Joseph LaPalombara.

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Economic history--1990-
International economic integration.
International finance.
International economic relations.

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