Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy (Council on Foreign Relations Book) - Softcover

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Edward Alden

 
9781538104798: Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy (Council on Foreign Relations Book)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1538104792 ISBN 13: 9781538104798
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2017

Synopsis

Americans know that something has gone wrong in this country’s effort to prosper in the face of growing global economic competition. The vast benefits promised by the supporters of globalization, and by their own government, have never materialized for most Americans. This book is the story of what went wrong, and how to correct the course. It is a compelling history of the last four decades of US economic and trade policies that have left Americans unable to adapt to or compete in the current global marketplace. Failure to Adjust argues that, despite the deep partisan divisions over how best to respond to America’s competitive challenges, there is achievable common ground on such issues as fostering innovation, overhauling tax rules to encourage investment in the United States, boosting graduation rates, investing in infrastructure, and streamlining regulations. The federal government needs to become more like U.S. state governments in embracing economic competitiveness as a central function of government. The book presents an especially timely analysis of the trade policies of the Obama administration, and discusses how America can reassert itself as the leader in setting rules for international economic competition that would spread the benefits of global trade and investment more broadly.

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About the Author

Edward Alden is the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author of The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 9/11 (Harper, 2008), which was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize.

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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1538104792
ISBN 13 
9781538104798
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
268

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