Competitiveness, Convergence, and International Specialization

by Edward N. Wolff and David Dollar

David Dollar and Edward Wolff look at claims that a deindustrialized United States is on the road to secondrate status in the global marketplace and find them to be both unfounded and simplistic. Their systematic and empirical investigation of the mechanisms through which countries like Japan and Germany have caught up with the United States in terms of productivity and standard of living will inform public debate about which government policies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262041359
• ISBN13: 9780262041355
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher