Head to head : coming economic battle among Japan, Europne and America

With the dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the implosion of the USSR in 1991, the Cold War era has ended. Immediately, a new economic struggle begins. Three economic superpowers emerge, each playing the game of capitalism in a strikingly different man ner. And for the first time, the United States is the second largest economy in the world.

As the domestic economy stagnates and the defi cit financing of the federal government escalates, many Americans see themselves at a turning point. And well they might. In Head to Head, one of America's most influen tial economists provides his dynamic assessment of the emerging economic landscape: the rules of this new three-way competition; the strengths and weaknesses of the players; the information we need to win. Head to Head is full of surprises; one attribute of the new competition is that radical new skills and radical new ways of thinking are vital to success.