Product Description: In recent years, popular wisdom has held that opening American markets to Chinese goods was the best way to promote democracy in Beijing―that the Communist Party's grip would quickly weaken as increasingly affluent Chinese citizens embraced American values...read more

Product Description: When financial journalist Eamonn Fingleton anticipated the meltdown of the New Economy in the late nineties, his predictions were dismissed by mainstream economic writers as “farfetched.” Now, with the New Economy in ruins and America mired in recession, Fingleton’s avowedly contrarian take on mainstream economic thinking is all the more urgent...read more

Challenging conventional prognostications about the future of business, the author of Blindside argues that manufacturing, rather that the information economy, holds the key to future business prosperity, job growth, and international exports. (view table of contents)

Revealing traditional Japanese strategies that label the nation's current recession as a deliberate misconception, an examination of Japan's emerging role in the global marketplace predicts that Japan will overtake the United States's economic status.