TY - BOOK AU - Pollina,Ronald R TI - Selling out a superpower : where the US economy went wrong and how we can turn it around SN - 9781616142155 AV - HC106.84 .P65 2010 U1 - 330.973 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Amherst PB - Prometheus Books KW - Free trade KW - United States KW - Recessions KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Economic policy KW - 2009- KW - Social policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Superpower no more? : the shift in international economic power -- Where has all our vision gone? -- East is the new west : the shift in the balance of power -- To the victor go the spoils -- Twentieth-century education does not produce twenty-first century jobs -- Outsourcing national security -- Driving American companies offshore : it's more than cheap labor -- The great American job purge : we're making little effort to stop it -- Taking responsibility for economic development -- Our representatives aren't representing us : federal and state leaders just don't get it -- A national addiction to deficit spending -- Why free trade doesn't mean fair trade -- The eleventh commandment : for some presidents, it's a matter of faith -- The high cost of free trade -- There's no such thing as win-win negotiating -- Easy credit, family debt, and tax cuts : why you can't get ahead -- The morphine solution to economic problems -- Twenty-first-century economic wars ER -