Beyond the Twin Deficits: A Trade Strategy for the 1990's
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Beyond the Twin Deficits: A Trade Strategy for the 1990's

A Trade Strategy for the 1990's

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eBook - ePub

Beyond the Twin Deficits: A Trade Strategy for the 1990's

A Trade Strategy for the 1990's

About this book

This study documents evidence of a decline trend in the international competitiveness of US industry. The analysis identifies three groups of countries that account for most of the US trade deficit in the 1980s: the surplus countries, Germany and Japan; the East Asian NICs; and the Latin American debtors. In each case the author points to underlying structural problems contributing to the deficit. They call for quite different US policy responses, including microeconomic and industrial policies, incentives to revive productivity, growth and technological innovation, import surcharges, wage increases in the NICs, currency realignments, US capital exports, and debt relief. A pragmatic policy approach, with efforts to open foreign markets, aims to achieve the greatest possible reduction in the trade deficit with the lowest possible cost from macroeconomic adjustments. The author urges the reversal of two adverse trends in his policy strategy: the decline in public sector investment and the decreasing progressivity of the tax code.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781315288314

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Executive Summary
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1. Competitiveness, Trade, and Incomes
  11. Chapter 2. Disentangling the Twin Deficits
  12. Chapter 3. Evidence for a Secular Decline in Competitiveness
  13. Chapter 4. Structural Roots of U.S. Trade Problems: An Overview
  14. Chapter 5. The Industrialized Surplus Countries: Japan and Germany
  15. Chapter 6. Trade Problems with Developing Countries
  16. Chapter 7. Implications for Policy
  17. Appendix
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index