Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes the Fate of Nations

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Author: Richard Elkus

ISBN-10: 046500315X

ISBN-13: 9780465003150

Category: Competition - Economics

Over the past thirty years, the United States has lost commanding leads in business after business. We no longer make cameras, TVs, MP3 players, cell phones, or DVD players, and we have become the world’s largest debtor nation. Everyone thinks this is because of cheap labor costs, but in fact Asian leaders have a fundamental and different way of thinking about business. They are playing a different game. If the U.S. wants to regain its competitiveness and preserve its global power, it must...

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Why has the U.S. lost dominant market positions in industry after industry, why this is a major problem for American living standards, and what we can do about it

Introduction The Great Giveaway 11 Replay 272 Convergence 493 Evolution, Part 1 774 Evolution, Part 2 955 Chasing the Rainbow: The Cost of Infrastructure 1236 Education and Competitiveness: The Vicious and Virtuous Circle 1577 It's Not about the Picture: The Case of HDTV 1798 Winners and Losers 2059 Failure Is Not an Option 223Acknowledgments 245Notes 247Index 257