Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy
*Updated edition with a new foreword on the Trump administration's trade policy*

The vast benefits promised by the supporters of globalization, and by their own government, have never materialized for many Americans. In Failure to Adjust Edward Alden provides a compelling history of the last four decades of US economic and trade policies that have left too many Americans unable to adapt to or compete in the current global marketplace. He tells the story of what went wrong and how to correct the course. Originally published on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, Alden’s book captured the zeitgeist that would propel Donald J. Trump to the presidency. In a new introduction to the paperback edition, Alden addresses the economic challenges now facing the Trump administration, and warns that economic disruption will continue to be among the most pressing issues facing the United States. If the failure to adjust continues, Alden predicts, the political disruptions of the future will be larger still.
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Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy
*Updated edition with a new foreword on the Trump administration's trade policy*

The vast benefits promised by the supporters of globalization, and by their own government, have never materialized for many Americans. In Failure to Adjust Edward Alden provides a compelling history of the last four decades of US economic and trade policies that have left too many Americans unable to adapt to or compete in the current global marketplace. He tells the story of what went wrong and how to correct the course. Originally published on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, Alden’s book captured the zeitgeist that would propel Donald J. Trump to the presidency. In a new introduction to the paperback edition, Alden addresses the economic challenges now facing the Trump administration, and warns that economic disruption will continue to be among the most pressing issues facing the United States. If the failure to adjust continues, Alden predicts, the political disruptions of the future will be larger still.
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Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy

Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy

by Edward Alden
Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy

Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy

by Edward Alden

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*Updated edition with a new foreword on the Trump administration's trade policy*

The vast benefits promised by the supporters of globalization, and by their own government, have never materialized for many Americans. In Failure to Adjust Edward Alden provides a compelling history of the last four decades of US economic and trade policies that have left too many Americans unable to adapt to or compete in the current global marketplace. He tells the story of what went wrong and how to correct the course. Originally published on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, Alden’s book captured the zeitgeist that would propel Donald J. Trump to the presidency. In a new introduction to the paperback edition, Alden addresses the economic challenges now facing the Trump administration, and warns that economic disruption will continue to be among the most pressing issues facing the United States. If the failure to adjust continues, Alden predicts, the political disruptions of the future will be larger still.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538104798
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/15/2017
Series: A Council on Foreign Relations Book
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 268
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.90(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments

1 The End of the World’s Greatest Autarky
2 Confronting the Competition: The Limitations of Trade Policy
3 Confronting the Competition: How a Strong Dollar Has Hurt
4 Investment: The Winners and the Losers from Offshoring
5 Helping the Losers: The Tragedy of Trade Adjustment Assistance
6 Tiger Moms and Failing Schools – The Competitive Challenge at Home
7 How to Think About Economic Competitiveness
8 A Strategy for Competing in a Globalized World

Notes
Index
About the Author
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