National competitiveness in a global economy / edited by David P. Rapkin and William P. Avery

Competitiveness : Useful concept, political slogan, or dangerous obsession?, 1. -- Does the United States have an international competitiveness problem?, 21. -- Sources of competitive asymetries between the United States and Japan, 41. -- Ideology and competitiveness : The basis for U.S. and Japanese economic policies, 55. -- The pursuit of competitiveness in East Asia : Regionalization of production and its consequences, 103. -- The limits on hegemonic predation as a responses to competitiveness problems : The United States and Taiwan, 133. -- Fairness, efficiency and opportunism in U. S. trade and investment policy, 153. -- Alternative paths to competitiveness : U. S. trade policies in international air transport services and commercial class aircraft manufacturing, 179. -- Ideas and foreign policy : The emergence of techno-nationalism in U. S. policies toward Japan, 199. -- Cooperating to competence : The european experiment, 225