Clyde Prestowitz is the founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute. He formerly served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. 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; and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Books & Articles
Our Incoherent China Policy: The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad economics, and even worse as containment of China. American Prospect Fall 2015Could Germany save eurozone by leaving it? CNN May 30, 2012The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America's Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4391-1979-2Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth And Power to the East, 2005The South Korean Firehose The Globalist July 25, 2005Don't Pester Europe on Genetically Modified Food New York Times Op-Ed January 24, 2003Rogue Nation - American Unilateralism and The Failure of Good Intentions, 2003Trading Places - How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan and How to Reclaim It, 1993The World Turned Upside Down: The Impact of the Return of India and China to their Historical Global Weight MIT World Video - 04-04-06In 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. TranscriptThree Billion New Capitalists book interview on ABC Radio Australia, July 11, 2006
