Political Science Globalization
Decline of the Superpowers
Winners and Losers in Today's Global Economy
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1987
- Category
- Globalization, Economics
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888628923
- Publish Date
- Jan 1987
- List Price
- $16.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552771464
- Publish Date
- Feb 2008
- List Price
- $45.00
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Description
Recent years have seen extensive change in the global economy as the United States' economic strength has declined while nations such as Japan and West Germany have grown dramatically.
In Decline of the Superpowers, James Laxer considers the different patterns of economic and political development among nine of the world's strongest economies that have given rise to these changes. Countries covered are the United States, Britain, Japan, West Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Canada, and the Soviet Union.
He then discusses the trends of the future for the major industrialized powers.
About the author
James Laxer, a professor of political science at York University in Toronto, has a wealth of experience analyzing American society. His best-selling book, Stalking the Elephant: My Discovery of America was described by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Boston Globe David Shribman as "a book by a Canadian that can change the United States." The book was by published by the New Press in New York under the title Discovering America: Travels in the Land of Guns, God and Corporate Gurus. One of Canada’s leading political thinkers, Laxer is frequently consulted for commentary of current national and global issues by the media. He lives in Toronto.
