Table of Contents

Section I: Overview; 1. A Proposed Foreign Economic Policy for the United States - C. Fred Bergsten; Section II: The Policy Context; 2. The Payoff to America from Global Integration - Scott C. Bradford, Paul L. E. Grieco, and Gary Clyde Hufbauer; 3. Uneven Gains and Unbalanced Burdens: Three Decades of American Globalization - J. David Richardson; 4. China: The Great New Economic Challenge - Nicholas Lardy; 5. The United States and the Large Emerging-Market Economies: Competitors or Partners? - Jan Boyer and Edwin Truman; Section III: The Key Issues; 6. Sustaining Global Growth while Reducing External Imbalances - Michael Mussa; 7. Energy: The Gathering Storm - Philip K. Verleger; 8. Confronting Current Challenges to US Trade Policy - Jeffrey J. Schott; 9. Globalization of Services and US Economic Performance - Catherine L. Mann; 10. Easing the Adjustment Burden on US Workers - Lori G. Kletzer and Howard Rosen; 11. Challenges for US Immigration Policy - Gordon H. Hanson; 12. The International Financial Architecture - Morris Goldstein; 13. Fostering Development - William R. Cline and John Williamson

About the Author

C. Fred Bergsten, senior fellow and director emeritus, was the founding director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (formerly the Institute for International Economics) from 1981 through 2012. He is serving his second term as a member of the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations and was co-chairman of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the United States-India Trade Policy Forum, comprising the trade ministers of those two countries, during 2007-14.

Reviews

The Institute for International Economics is a national and international resource, and this is one of its finest efforts. -- Lawrence H. Summers A volume packed with important and innovative ideas about US foreign economic policy. US and foreign policymakers should read and draw on it. -- Stanley Fischer The call to action simply must not be ignored. -- Paul Volcker