Beyond Blue Economic Horizons : U. S. Trade Performance and International Competitiveness in the 1990s

Designed as a primer for policymakers and students, this volume focuses on two critical problems the United States faces as we move into the 1990s: the unprecedented size of US trade deficits and the nation's declining international competitiveness. The author uses contemporary data to identify and explain the linkages among trade deficits, budget deficits, international compeitiveness, the future of manufacturing in the United States, the US debtor position, foreign direct investment and other related economic and political problems.