Accelerating the Globalization of America - The Role for Information Technology

Catherine Mann, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

ISBN 10: 088132390X / ISBN 13: 9780881323900

Published by The Peterson Institute for International Economics, US, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Accelerating the Globalization of America - The Role for Information Technology
• Publisher: The Peterson Institute for International Economics, US
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088132390X
• ISBN 13: 9780881323900
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 394 grams

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Synopsis

Information technology (IT) was key to the superior overall macroeconomic performance of the United States in the 1990s―high productivity, high growth, low inflation, and low unemployment. But IT also played a role in increasing earnings dispersion in the labor market―greatly rewarding workers with high education and skills. This US performance did not happen in a global vacuum. Globalization of US IT firms promoted deeper integration of IT throughout the US economy, which in turn promoted more extensive globalization in other sectors of the US economy and labor market. How will the increasingly globalized IT industry affect US long-term growth, intermediate macro performance, and disparities in the US labor market? What policies are needed to ensure that the United States remains first in innovation, business transformation, and education and skills, which are prerequisites for US economic leadership in the 21st century? This book traces the globalization of the IT industry, its diffusion into the US economy, and the prospects and implications of more extensive technology-enabled globalization of products and services.

About the Author

Catherine Mann was a senior fellow who is now the Chief Economist at the OECD, where she also heads up the Economics Directorate. She was most recently the Barbara '54 and Richard M. Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance at the International Business School, Brandeis University, where she also directed the Rosenberg Institute of Global Finance. She joins the OECD after 7 years at Brandeis and following 20-plus years in Washington, DC.

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, senior fellow, has been associated with the Institute since 2002. Before joining the Institute, he worked with the Danish Ministry of Defense, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial sector.