Straddling economics and politics cross-cutting issues in Asia, the United States, and the global economy

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. Published in prominent journals and news media between 1996 and 2001, these cross-cutting essays are as relevant to...

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Main Author: Wolf, Charles
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA Rand ©2002©2002, 2002
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • The global economy
  • Globalization: meaning and measurement
  • Globalization: less than meets the eye
  • Financial crises and the challenge of "moral hazard"
  • The morning after
  • Financial flu isn't contagious
  • History hasn't ended: the struggle between markets and governments resumes
  • The WTO controversy: exaggerated fears and unrealistic hopes
  • economic facts point to a weak Euro
  • E Pluribus Incertum Unum
  • The crisis of George Soros
  • The U.S. economy and foreign policy
  • Whether and when to intervene
  • Tax cuts, debt reduction, and "fairness": why tax reduction is no more "unfair" than debt reduction
  • False alarms about the U.S. trade deficit
  • Two deficits that just don't matter / co-authored with Walter Wriston
  • Taxes, trade, and growth
  • Asian economics and politics
  • Are "Asian values" really that unique?
  • Through a hazy crystal ball: Asia's economic outlook, 1997-2020
  • Asia in 2015
  • The accumulation of military capital in Asia and the United States, 1997-2015
  • Too much government control
  • The End of Asia's economic crisis
  • When good news isn't newsworthy
  • Asia's dramatic recovery
  • China after Deng
  • Why China's 8 percent growth target is not good news
  • China's devaluation: whether, when, how much?
  • China's hierarchs face a critical dilemma
  • Communists and capitalists in China: who will co-opt whom?
  • China continues its fitful march toward capitalism
  • One China, three systems?
  • Restarting cross-strait relations: beyond the dialogue of the deaf / co-authored with Jonathan Pollack
  • Curing Japan's economic malaise
  • Long-term prospects for Japan
  • New therapies for Japan's economic sclerosis / co-authored with Mark Buchman
  • Japan's comfortable stagnation
  • How to defend Japan while "engaging" China
  • When a balance of power can be destabilizing
  • Managing the costs of Korean unification: if it occurs