Selling out a superpower where the US economy went wrong and how we can turn it around

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.