Synopses & Reviews
This symposium of papers by statesmen and leading experts from around the world examines the global economic situation and voices concern about the potential for world unemployment and trade crisis in the 1990s. A new 'Marshall Plan' would involve a concerted worldwide effort to improve the situation. This plan was first formulated by Charles A. Cerami while undertaking a study of the global trade picture for the United States Departments of State, Treasury, and Commerce. Meeting with scores of diplomats nd policy makers in some forty countries, Cerami sought possible solutions to economic problems on the global level. Each of the contributors to this volume is among the best in the field; each is important in the world mechanism of government and politics. This anthology is an important tool in the effort to promote a working consensus among the leaders of different nationalities and political benefits to plan for economic development.
The `Marshall Plan' would consist of the radical solution of a vast expansion of the number and size of markets, and therefore of the quantity of products to be absorbed. Since the economies of the developed world (the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia) already absorb a great deal, the major effort would be to develop more markets in Third World nations. Students and scholars of business and economics, as well as international business people, will find A Marshall Plan for the 1990S≪/i> a thought provoking study.
Synopsis
This symposium of papers by statesmen and leading experts from around the world examines the global economic situation and voices concern about the potential for world unemployment and trade crisis in the 1990s. A new `Marshall Plan' would involve a concerted worldwide effort to improve the situation. This plan was first formulated by Cerami while undertaking a study of the global trade picture for the United States Departments of State, Treasury, and Commerce. Meeting with scores of diplomats and policy makers in some 40 countries, Cerami sought possible solutions to economic problems on the global level.
About the Author
CHARLES A. CERAMI was Senior Editor, Research Institute of America
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Frightening Numbers
A Plan to Create New Markets
Both Sides of the Question
Why Today Is Different
First Steps to Increased Trade
Growth Among the Advance Nations
Trade Policy: The View from Congress
Can the U.S. Still Lead?
Europe's Dilemma
Strengthening the U.S.-Europe Partnership
The Economics of Liberty: How More Nations Can Join the First World
Latin America
Africa: Development Under Duress
China's Open-Door Policy: Development, Problems, and Prospects
What the Developing Nations Must Contribute
The Challenge to Business Leadership
Agricultural Trade--The Hardest Test
How East-West Trade Fits the Picture
Firmer Foundations for Lasting Prosperity
This Much Is Certain
Bibliography
Index