Growing U.S. Ethnoracial Diversity: A Positive or Negative Societal Dynamic?

2018 ◽  
Vol 677 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank D. Bean
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fostering Creativity

Solving problems of race relations in the United States requires avoiding binary ethnoracial classifications and understanding the nature, extent, and consequences of today’s diversity resulting from immigration. Recent demographic change has involved not only growth in the size of the nonwhite U.S. population but also increases in the number of new ethnoracial groups. Modest socioeconomic improvements have recently occurred among most nonwhite groups, and the rise in the number of different groups has led to some positive changes (i.e., boosting intermarriage and multiracial identification, blurring color lines among ethnoracial groups, and fostering creativity and economic growth) without diminishing social cohesion and solidarity. However, the benefits of multigroup diversity appear not to have reached many Americans who have less felt the social and economic benefits of free trade, globalization, and immigration. This underscores the need for universal policies that transcend identity- and grievance-based politics and provide security and benefits for all Americans.

AHMED GALAL AND ROBERT Z. LAWRENCE, ED., Building Bridges: An Egypt–US Free Trade Agreement (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998). Pp. 121. $29.95 cloth.

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira Salem
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Brookings Institution ◽  
Optimal Form

Has the time come for a free-trade agreement (FTA) between Egypt and the United States? According to the contributors to Building Bridges, an FTA is the logical next step in the Egypt–U.S. relationship. This policy-oriented volume explores the conditions under which the benefits of an FTA between the parties would be maximized. Although the contributors reach different conclusions regarding the optimal form of the Egypt–U.S. FTA, consensus is reached on one point: an FTA between Egypt and the United States will produce economic benefits for both nations.

Le libre-échange canado-américain: défi à la souveraineté et au progrès

1986 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-324
Author(s):  
Daniel Leduc
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
The Social ◽  
Liberal Government ◽  
Economic Well Being

AbstractThe federal election of 1984 brought to an end 16 years of virtually uninterrupted Liberal government whose foreign policy was characterized by an evident desire to set Canada apart from the United States and give a truly Canadian flavour to the country's diplomacy. The Conservatives have drawn a lesson for themselves from the limited results of such policy and have re-aligned the country more closely with the United States to resolve various issues inherited from the Liberals, free trade being one of them. If free trade were to become a reality, there would be serious implications for the future of Canadian industry, for the social and economic well-being of the population, and, most important of all, for the existence of Canada as a sovereign state.

The Emergence of an Epidemic

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Finkelman ◽  
J. Michael McGinnis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Drug Misuse ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
Pain Medications ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The opioid crisis has roots deep in history, including social, cultural, and economic factors and trends that have driven the current epidemic. In this chapter, the authors describe the history of opioid use and its evolution to the current day. The modern epidemic has been spurred by the early marketing of pain medications as “nonaddictive,” increased availability of both prescription and illicit opioids in the United States, and perceptions that drug misuse and addiction are individual “moral failings” versus a broader understanding of addiction as being driven by broader social and environmental factors such as community resilience and social cohesion. The chapter suggests several opportunities to improve efforts to end the epidemic, including working with clinicians and community leaders to change health system procedures and to adopt policies that support communities in efforts to address the social determinants of health.

Conclusion: Manufacturing Matters More Than Ever

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Bonvillian ◽  
Peter L. Singer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
The United States ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing ◽  
Social Disruption ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Strategy

This concluding chapter argues that the larger issue facing the United States is that the social disruption will not just fade away. The decline of manufacturing was a wild card factor that spelled growing social disappointment and corresponding social disruption. The outcome of the 2016 presidential election brought this reality home to all—it was in significant part a postindustrial backlash. The United States can ignore manufacturing and allow it to continue to erode, but the consequences to U.S. innovation capability and therefore to economic growth appear to be problematic. It also now appears that there are consequences for the nation's social fabric and democratic values as well. Ultimately, a new strategy of innovation-driven advanced manufacturing offers one pathway out of America's economic problems.

The Comparative Focus in Latin American History

1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene D. Genovese
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
New Research

There are at least two reasons for United States and Latin American historians to bring their work together in a comparative thesis, the first being the need to maximize control of generalizations, and the second being the need to write the history of the social process by which a single world community has been developing since the sixteenth century. Recently, considerable progress with the first task has been made in the study of slavery and race relations, but little progress can yet be reported with the second.One result of the work on slavery and race relations ought to warn and encourage us. Without entering here into a discussion of the specific points of view advanced by Frank Tannenbaum, Marvin Harris, Sidney Mintz, Stanley Elkins, Gilberto Freyre, Herbert Klein, and so many others, it could be demonstrated that the comparisons of slavery in the United States, South America, and the Caribbean have so far proven enormously important in clarifying issues and stimulating new research and yet have failed to yield some of the most sought-after generalizations.

Markets, Technological Change and Economic Growth (The Quaid-i-Azam Lecture)

1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (4I) ◽  
pp. 327-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Lipsey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Canadian Institute ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Short Time

I am honoured to be invited to give this lecture before so distinguished an audience of development economists. For the last 21/2 years I have been director of a project financed by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and composed of a group of scholars from Canada, the United States, and Israel.I Our brief is to study the determinants of long term economic growth. Although our primary focus is on advanced industrial countries such as my own, some of us have come to the conclusion that there is more common ground between developed and developing countries than we might have first thought. I am, however, no expert on development economics so I must let you decide how much of what I say is applicable to economies such as your own. Today, I will discuss some of the grand themes that have arisen in my studies with our group. In the short time available, I can only allude to how these themes are rooted in our more detailed studies. In doing this, I must hasten to add that I speak for myself alone; our group has no corporate view other than the sum of our individual, and very individualistic, views.

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