Command of commerce : America's enduring economic power advantage over China / Ben A. Vagle, Stephen G. Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vagle, Ben A., author.

Brooks, Stephen G., 1971- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balance of trade--United States.

Balance of trade.

Balance of trade--China.

United States--Commerce.

United States.

China--Commerce.

China.

United States--Foreign economic relations--China.

China--Foreign economic relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

The conventional wisdom has held that China's economic power is very close to America's and that Washington cannot undertake a broad economic cutoff of China without hurting itself as much, or more. 'Command of Commerce' shows that the conventional wisdom is wrong - America's economic power has been vastly underestimated and China's overestimated. Across multiple scenarios, the book shows that China's economic losses from a broad cutoff would be far greater than America's. A powerful analysis of the true scope of US and Chinese economic power, this text will reshape our understanding of the most important geopolitical rivalry in the world.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Figures and Tables

1 Introduction

2 Measuring the Distribution of Commercial Capacity

3 The Potemkin Superpower

4 China's Economic Weapons

5 Conceptualizing a Wartime Cutoff of China

6 Modeling a Wartime Economic Cutoff of China

7 Foreign Policy Implications for America and China

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 27, 2025).

ISBN:

9780197802335

0197802338

9780197802311

0197802311

OCLC:

1503437831