Selling Out a Superpower: Where the U.S. Economy Went Wrong and How We Can Turn It Around Book

Contents

Preface....................13
Acknowledgments....................19
1. Superpower No More? The Shift in International Economic Power....................21
2. Where Has All Our Vision Gone?....................37
3. East Is the New West The Shift in the Balance of Power....................55
4. To the Victor Go the Spoils....................71
5. Twentieth-Century Education Does Not Produce Twenty-first-Century Jobs....................85
6. Outsourcing National Security....................103
7. Driving American Companies Offshore It's More Than Cheap Labor....................117
8. The Great American Job Purge We're Making Little Effort to Stop It....................133
9. Taking Responsibility For Economic Development....................153
10. Our Representatives Aren't Representing Us Federal and State Leaders Just Don't Get It....................167
11. A National Addiction to Deficit Spending....................181
12. Why Free Trade Doesn't Mean Fair Trade....................197
13. The Eleventh Commandment For Some Presidents, It's a Matter Of Faith....................211
14. The High Cost of Free Trade....................225
15. There's No Such Thing as Win-Win Negotiating....................239
16. Easy Credit, Family Debt, and Tax Cuts Why You Can't Get Ahead....................251
17. The Morphine Solution to Economic Problems....................267
18. Twenty-First-Century Economic Wars....................287
Endnotes....................303
Index....................325