1. Can America Still Lead in the Global Economy?
- Author:
- Lael Brainard and David Lipton
- Publication Date:
- 08-2008
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The Brookings Institution
- Abstract:
- From the vantage point of 2008, some of the most memorable initiatives of U.S. international economic leadership—the Paris and Louvre Accords, the support for Poland and Russia after the fall of communism, the Uruguay Round, and the Mexican Financing Loan—seem like quaint reminders of a simpler time. In the coming years, the exercise of international economic leadership will surely prove more complex than in the past. The very success of the American vision of a global spread of vibrant and competitive markets has created a huge, rapidly integrating private economy of trade and finance much less amenable to guidance, let alone control, by governments. Unlike in diplomacy and defense, where non state actors are growing in importance but still a side show, in inter- national economics, households, corporations, labor unions, and non-profits are now the dominant players in most parts of the world. While they respond to national laws and policies, their interests are varied and their operations often span borders.
- Topic:
- Economics, International Political Economy, International Trade and Finance, and Markets
- Political Geography:
- Russia, United States, Paris, Poland, Uruguay, and Mexico