Techno-Nationalism and Techno-Globalism Conflict and Cooperation

by Ostry, Sylvia; Nelson, Richard R.

• ISBN13: 9780815766742
• ISBN10: 0815766742
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

"We should be grateful to Ostry and Nelson for giving clarity and balance to interrelated subjects too often dominated by passion and muddle." Keith Pavitt, University of Sussex Sylvia Ostry is chair of the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. Richard R. Nelson is professor of international and public affairs, business, and law at Columbia University. This work is part of the Integrating National Economies series. As global markets for goods, services and financial assets have become increasingly integrated, national governments no longer have as much control over economic markets. With the completion of the Uruguay Round of the GATT talks, the world economy has entered a fresh phase requiring different rules and different levels of international cooperation. Policies once thought to be entirely domestic and appropriately determined by national political institutions, are now subject to international constraints. Cogent analysis of this deeper integration of the world economy, and guidelines for government policies, are urgent priorities. This series aims to meet these needs over a range of 21 books by some of the world's leading economists, political scientists, foreign policy specialists and government officials.

Author Biography

Sylvia Ostry is chair of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Decline of American Hegemony and the Rise of Global Competition	p. 1
The Rise and Erosion of American Technological Leadership	p. 2
Globalization during the 1980s: The Onset of Technoglobalism	p. 10
National Innovation Systems, Industrial Policies, and the Rise of Technonationalism	p. 28
Technical Advance and "Market Failure"	p. 28
National Innovation Systems	p. 33
National Policies during the 1980s: Bucking the Tide of Internationalism	p. 49
High-Technology Fetishism and Technonationalism	p. 60
High-Tech Conflict in the 1980s	p. 62
The Subsidies Dispute: Airbus	p. 64
Disputes over Government Procurement and Regulation of Standards	p. 66
Investment-Related Trade Measures	p. 70
Autos and the Keiretsu	p. 74
Voluntary Import Expansion	p. 75
Structural Impediments and System Friction	p. 78
Coping with System Friction: Deeper Integration and Other Means	p. 79
Some Implications of Technoglobalism	p. 79
Deeper Integration: Harmonization and Other Approaches to Reduce System Friction	p. 81
International Spillovers and Reciprocity Issues	p. 95
The Problem with Basic Research	p. 110
Comments	p. 113
References	p. 119
Index	p. 125
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.