Challenging American leadership : impact of national quality on risk of losing leadership

Preamble: The 20th Century Stage for American Leadership; INTRODUCTION: The Need for an Economic Policy; America's Condition; The Meaning of Economics; Understanding Economics; American Democracy is not for Everyone; The Country of the Lonely; CHAPTER 1: U.S. ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT; Industrial and Technological Policies; Factors of Economic Growth; Politics and Economy; Strategic Management of the Economy; Managed Economics of Markets, Services, and Trade; The U.S. Standard of Living; The Impact of Human Behavior on Economic Systems; American Performance and Productivity; Capital and Labor Costs; U.S. Immigration; Energy or Fuel Use; America's Economic and Trade Dominance -- Is it real?; The U.S. as an Exporter; Foreign Trade Imbalance or Outsourcing; The U.S.-Asian Dilemma; Imposing Our Principles on Others; Economic Inequities in the U.S. Job Markets; Maintaining the Economic Leadership; Securities Markets; The American Consumer; Wealth and Value Creation; CHAPTER 2: AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS; The Problem of U.S. Underinvestment; Investment in Technology Development; Technology as an Economic Driving Force; Working in American Industry; Interpersonal Relations, Work Place Productivity, and Economic Impact; The U.S. Pension Debacle; Technology Ownership; Management of Technological Changes; Management Structures and Incentives; U.S. Corporate Pay; Worker Morale and Work Ethics; Productivity in America; Quality Management; Quality Control in Purchasing; Contradictions of Competitive Bidding and Procurement; The Decision Based Industrial Organization (DBO); Institutional Support for Industrial Development; America as a Service Economy; The Demise of the American Middle Class; Inequity in American Society; Economics of Disability in America; Political Correctness and Organized Labor; The Customer and the Cost of Doing Business in America; American Economic Prospects; The U.S. as a Post-Industrial Society; An Environment for Economic Success; CHAPTER 3: AMERICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS; Tax Burdens and Economic Incentives; Effectiveness and Cost of Government Regulation; Government Budget Making and Budgetary Needs; Government Spending; The National Debt Problem; The Entitlement Morass; A Welfare System which Discourages Work and Encourages Fraud; The Scourge of the Unemployed; Unemployment and Unemployment Benefits; The Business of Government; Government Failure; Improving Productivity by Downsizing; Welfare, Workfare, and Unemployment; The Twentieth Century Revolution in Technology and Social Structure; The Most Important Global Problem; Discouraging Job Growth; Misplaced Agricultural Support; Nuclear Waste Peril and Future Economic Costs; Impact and Future Role of the Internet; Stick Built Housing; American Income Distribution; Environmental Protection Quagmire; The American Worker; American Education; Law Enforcement Costs; Immigration and The Future of America; Economic Prospects and Challenges; CHAPTER 4: CLAIMS TO WORLD LEADERSHIP; The New America; America's Business and Financial Leadership; America's Identity Crisis; Fostering Food Adequacy and Supply; American Moral and Spiritual Leadership; Financial Management; The Making of Leaders; American Contradictions and Hypocrisy; Sovereignty and Human Rights; American Strengths and Weaknesses; CHAPTER 5: MANAGING AMERICAN LEADERSHIP; Impact of Technological Change; Ethnic Integration; The War on Terror; Deficits and Public Debt; America's Leadership in Innovation; America's Health Care Leadership; The Right to Leadership; Democracy in Action; Advancing Democracy; American Strengths and Weaknesses; CHAPTER 6: THE FUTURE OF WORLD LEADERSHIP; Challenging American Leadership; Growing Asian Dominance; Asian Road to Economic Success; America's Mistaken Self-perception; America's Economic Challenges; Impact of Globalization and Outsourcing on Economic Leadership; Factors Determining Leadership; America's Leadership Role; The Electronic Challenges to the American Service Economy; American Creativity and Its Role in Perpetuating Global Leadership; The New Brain Drain; Repositioning America in the Public Eye; Can Europe Again Become a World Leader?; Show of Democracy on Real Election and Fair Representation; As Others See America; Emergence of New Economic Leaders; CHAPTER 7: FUTURE WORLD LEADERSHIP; Challenges of the 21st Century; New Leadership Functions in Times of Crises and Opportunities; America's Leadership Performance when Challenged by Natural Disasters, Terrorism, and Socio/Political Unrest; China's Rebirth and Thrust towards Global Economic Power; India's Reemergent Economy; The Pacific Century and Future Role of Asian Economic Powers; America's Response to China's Challenges; Towards a Better, Fairer World where People's Interests Rule; CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSIONS; Is America Fit to Lead; Towards a Better, Fairer World where People's Interests Rule.