Straddling Economics & Politics: Issues in Asia, the United States and the Global Economy - Softcover

Wolf, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833031813 ISBN 13: 9780833031815

Publisher: RAND Corporation, 2002

Synopsis

This collection of essays examines the case for and against globalization, the effects of U.S. economic and foreign policy, and numerous issues related to Asian economics and politics.

About this title

Synopsis

A series of essays on the global economy, U.S. economy and foreign policy, and Asian economics and politics, which appeared in prominent newspapers and journals from 1996 to 2002. The essays in this book were written between the end of 1996 and the middle of 2001, and published in prominent newspapers and journals. The book is divided into three sections: The Global Economy, The U.S. Economy and Foreign Policy, and Asian Economics and Politics. The author is a strong, but not uncritical, adherent of free and competitive markets, and of market mechanisms rather than government intervention to address economic problems. He is skeptical and critical of U.S. efforts, however well intentioned, to intervene in politically charged, ethnically complex, and murky conflict environment. He is inclined toward restarting cross-Strait discussions between Mainland China and Taiwan. Finally, he tries to envisage the economic and military directions in which particular countries or regions are moving, and what the movements portend for the future.

About the Author

Charles Wolf, Jr., is Dean of the RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies and Director of RAND's research program in International Economic Policy.

Edition details

• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0833031813
• ISBN 13: 9780833031815
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228