Intro -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Confidence and the Currency -- 1. Bordering on Alchemy -- 2. Cogniac Street Capitalism -- 3. The Bank Wars -- 4. The Western Bankers -- 5. Passing and Detecting -- 6. Ghosts in the Machine -- 7. Banking on the Nation -- Epilogue: Confidence in the Country --...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Premises -- Comparative Perspective -- Organization of the Study -- Chapter 2 Foundations of Accountability -- Definition and Prerequisites -- Debate over the Role of Congress -- Executive Discretion and Congressional...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Distinctions and Qualifications -- Plan of the Study -- Chapter 2 The Wage-Productivity Gap, 1981-2006 -- Measurement Adjustments -- Role of Wage Inequality -- Rise in Skills of Non-Blue-Collar Workers -- Profits and...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- FDI in the Early 20th Century -- Postwar Trends in FDI -- The FDI Expansion of 1985-2003 -- The Impetus for This Book -- Chapter 2 The Exon-Florio Amendment -- Overview of the Exon-Florio Amendment...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- I Foreign Economic Policy for the United States -- Chapter 1 A New Foreign Economic Policy for the United States -- Short-Run Agenda -- Domestic Foundations of Foreign Economic Policy -- The New Global Context -- Proposals for Policy -- US...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Overview -- Chapter 1 The International Debt Cycle and the United States as an External Debtor -- The Debt Cycle -- Measuring the Net International Investment Position -- The Debt Cycle in Practice -- The Global Balance Sheet Discrepancy -- Debt...