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Political Science Globalization

Decline of the Superpowers

Winners and Losers in Today's Global Economy

by (author) James Laxer

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1987
Category
Globalization, Economics
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888628923
    Publish Date
    Jan 1987
    List Price
    $16.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552771464
    Publish Date
    Feb 2008
    List Price
    $45.00

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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.

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