The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics & Half-Century of False Predictions - Essential Reading for Political Science & Economic History Students
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“A bracing and intelligent reminder that, for all its woes, America remains extraordinarily dynamic, innovative, and resilient.”―Fareed Zakaria Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2013, The Myth of America’s Decline is a highly provocative look at how the United States, for all its failings, continues to be the leading business, political, and intellectual model for all other nations. In a world where America bashers constantly chortle that the United States is in decline, Josef Joffe, using lively historical examples and empirical economic models, demonstrates that these doomsday contentions are flawed, and that America―even when compared with a resurgent China―is the land where the future is being born. 32 illustrations
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A brilliant, detailed reading of Declinism [as in the West and the Rest read by Niall Ferguson] in the US and the West.The author does not suggest this is not occurring but places the idea within a historical context and then analyzes the different forms the declinist argument occurs and its unstated purposes. This is the most interesting part of the book.With a contextualized understanding of the declinist ideology in hand, the author then proceeds to apply this to the idea of decline over the past 60 years, but with special emphasis on China which they spend some time comparing to the Asian Tigers [most notably Taiwan and South Korea (ROK)].Mr. Joffe spends a considerable amount of time interrogating the BRICs and their rise.All in all, the picture is fairly positive for the US at this time, but the author sees some clouds on the horizon, and although they disagree with the declinists Mr. Joffe does believe America could possible be the author of its own destruction [spending is of particular concern as well as trade imbalance]This reader found Mr. Joffe's reading of the rise and limitations of China very interesting.Highly Recommended for those worried about what the world may look like by 2050 [popular fiction date for the declinists].
