The United States Balance of Payments in the Mid 1980s: The National Burden of Global Change

African-American relations at present are characterized by a situation in which the United States government and United States investors take more resources out of Africa than they put in. There is a negative balance of payments in the flow of aid, trade, and other resources. Consequently, Africans are disappointed in America and have little faith in the ability of this Western power to make even a modest contribution to the resolution of African problems by African means.

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Trends and Cycles in U.S. Trade with Spain and the Spanish Empire, 1790–1819

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700032113 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 521-543 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Javier Cuenca Esteban

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Terms Of Trade ◽

Balance Of Payments ◽

Spanish America ◽

Spanish Empire ◽

Export Trade ◽

Demand Elasticities ◽

Merchandise Trade ◽

Constant Prices

Analysis of balance-of-payments components with Spain and Spanish America helps account for spectacular economic gains to the United States in the neutrality years and for the subsequent turn to net deficit positions during the 1810s. Excess export values at constant prices with Spain and favorable terms of trade with Spanish America decisively contributed to large surpluses on commodity account through 1795–1813. Most cycles in merchandise trade are consistent with greater demand elasticities for exports than for imports.Net earings on freight, insurance, and mercantile profits boosted overall returns from the Spanish Empire at the very times when they were most needed to finance the re-export trade and to settle deficits elsewhere.

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The road from Mont Pèlerin: the making of the neoliberal thought collective, edited by Philip Mirowski and Dieter PlehwePolitical ethnography: what immersion contributes to the study of politics, edited by Edward SchatzGlobal climate change impacts in the United States: a state of knowledge report from the US Global Change Research Program, edited by Thomas R. Karl, Jerry M. Melillo and Thomas C. Peterson

Critical Policy Studies ◽

10.1080/19460171.2010.490687 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 211-216

Author(s):

Daniel Kinderman ◽

Merlijn van Hulst ◽

Gabriela Kütting

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United States ◽

Global Change ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

The United States ◽

The Road ◽

Thought Collective ◽

The Us ◽

Global Change Research Program ◽

Global Change Research

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Implications of the U.S. Current Account Deficit

The Journal of Economic Perspectives ◽

10.1257/jep.3.4.153 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 153-165 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

David H Howard

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Current Account ◽

Current Account Deficit ◽

Analytical Framework ◽

The United States ◽

Balance Of Payments ◽

The World ◽

The U.S ◽

The Current Account

In 1988, the United States recorded a deficit of about $135 billion on the current account of its balance of payments with the rest of the world. This paper presents an analytical framework for thinking about the current account deficit, explores causes of the current account deficit, and discusses the United States as a debtor nation and the issue of sustainability.

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