1. The nature of international political economy. Part 1 American hegemonic decline: rethinking the origins of American hegemony, G. John Ikenberry; the changing nature of world power, Joseph S. Nye, Jr; the political economy of American strategy, Arron L. Friedberg. Part 2 The American budget deficit: director's introduction to the federal budget, Richard G. Darman; mortgaging America, Gerald Epstein. Part 3 The structural basis of the American economy: financing long-term investments - Office of Technology assessment; infrastructure, David Alan Aschauer; America's great U-turn, Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison; the case for manufacturing in America's future, Rudiger W. Dornbusch, James Poterba and Lawrence H. Summers. Part 4 US/Japanese economic relations: a Japan that can say no, Shintaro Ishihara; Japanese versus Western economics - why each side is a mystery to the other, Clyde Prestowitz; Japan and the United States in the new world economy, C. Fred Bergsten; structural impediments initiative agreement, US Special Trade.
2. The distribution of international economic power
3. The American economy and international trade
4. The American economy and international investment
5. The American economy and international debt
6. The future of the world political economy