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Imprint:	Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1988.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 297 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	De Gruyter studies on North America ; 3 De Gruyter studies on North America ; 3.
Subject:	Competition, International. Commercial policy. Competition, International. International economic relations. United States -- Foreign economic relations. United States -- Commercial policy. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12013110

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Other authors / contributors:	Holtfrerich, Carl-Ludwig.
ISBN:	9783110862454 311086245X 0899255353 3110117932 9783110117936 9780899255354
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Other form:	Print version: Economic and strategic issues in U.S. foreign policy. Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1988

Table of Contents:

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 â€œInteraction Mechanismâ€? Between Congress and the President in Making U.S. Foreign Trade Policy
1. The Development of the â€œInteraction 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 â€œInteraction Mechanismâ€? at the End of the Kennedy Round
2. Interlude: Changes in the 1970s
3. The â€œInteraction 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

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