Trade Friction and Economic Policy : Problems and Prospects for Japan and the United States (Paperback)

Foreword Richard R. West; Preface; 1. Introduction Paul Wachtel; Part I. Sources of Trade Friction: 2. Restructuring the Japanese economy from a global perspective Yoshio Okawara; 3. Is the Japan problem over? Paul Krugman; Discussions Shunichi Tsutsui and Harry P. Bowen; 4. The Japanese?US trade friction: some perspectives from the Japanese business community Masaya Miyoshi; 5. Industrial policy in Japan: over and evaluation Kotaro Suzumura and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara; Discussions Barbara Goody Katz and M. Therese Flaherty; Part II. Macroeconomic Policy: 6. The US and Japanese economies in the remaining Reagan years Paul A. Samuelson; 7. US macroeconomic policy and trade relations with Japan Herbert Stein; 8. New financial aspects of the US?Japanese trade relationship Roy C. Smith; 9. Japanese?US current accounts and exchange rates before and after the G5 agreement Kazuo Ueda; Discussions Robert Cumby and Richard C. Marston; Part III. Trade Policy: 10. Costs and benefits to the United States of the 1985 steel import quota program David G. Tarr; Discussions Lawrence J. White and Mitsuaki Sato; 11. Limits of trade policy toward high technology industries: the case of semiconductors Thomas A. Pugel; Discussions Rama V. Ramachandran and Ruth S. Raubitschek; Index.