Competitiveness: An International Economics Reader (Foreign Affairs Books)

Editors: Gideon Rose, Editor, Foreign Affairs, and Peter G. Peterson Chair, Foreign Affairs, and James F. Hoge Jr.

Publisher Foreign Affairs

Release Date January 1994

Price Out of Print

79 pages
ISBN 087609177X

Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession
Paul Krugman, Foreign Affairs, March/April 1994

Playing to Win
Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr., Foreign Affairs, July/August 1994

Microchips, Not Potato Chips
Lester C. Thurow, Foreign Affairs, July/August 1994

Rule-Based Competition
Rudolf Scharping, Foreign Affairs, July/August 1994

Speaking Freely
Stephen S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, July/August 1994

Careless Arithmetic
Benn Steil, Foreign Affairs, July/August 1994

Proving My Point
Paul Krugman, Foreign Affairs, July/August 1994

Why Pressure Tokyo
Roger C. Altman, Foreign Affairs, May/June 1994

Samurais No More
Jagdish Bhagwati, Foreign Affairs, May/June 1

Beating Back Predatory Trade
Alan Tonelson, Foreign Affairs, July/August 1994

The Myth of Asia's Miracle
Paul Krugman, Foreign Affairs, November/December 1994

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