Clyde Prestowitz (born 1941) is the founder and President of the
Economic Strategy Institute
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. He formerly served as counselor to the
Secretary of Commerce in the
Reagan Administration
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. He is a labor economist. Prestowitz has written for
Foreign Affairs.
Early life and education
Prestowitz was born to a family with a conservative Republican and evangelical Christian background
[ and earned a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College; an M.A. in East-West Policies and Economics from the East-West Center of the ]University of Hawaii
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; and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School
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of the University of Pennsylvania
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.
Books & articles
* ''Our Incoherent China Policy: The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad economics, and even worse as containment of China.'' American Prospect Fall 2015
* ''Could Germany save eurozone by leaving it?'' CNN
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May 30, 2012
* ''The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America's Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era'', 2010
* ''Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth And Power to the East'', 2005
* ''The South Korean Firehose'' July 25, 2005The South Korean Firehose by Clyde Prestowitz
* ''Don't Pester Europe on Genetically Modified Food'' ''
The New York Times
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'' Op-Ed January 24, 2003
* ''Rogue Nation - American Unilateralism and The Failure of Good Intentions'', 2003
* ''Trading Places - How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan and How to Reclaim It'', 1993
Multimedia
* ''The World Turned Upside Down: The Impact of the Return of India and China to their Historical Global Weight''
MIT World
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Video - 04-04-06* ''In Depth: Tuff Enough?'' Can the US continue to command the attention of world markets when the dollar is dropping and free trade is flourishing?
PBS' Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria
aired on August 4, 2006 Transcript
* ''Three Billion New Capitalists'' book interview o
July 11, 2006
References
Sources
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External links
Economic Strategy Institute
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American Presbyterians
Reagan administration personnel
United States Department of Commerce officials
Living people
Swarthmore College alumni
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
1941 births
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs