Key Content:

• Where to for the USA?

Reading:
Robert Gilpin,  Global political economy: understanding the international economic order. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. Chapter One.

I. Introduction  
 

1. political and social environment.
2. nature of the modern corporation and its future.
3. relationship of democracy to the American form of free enterprise.
4. American culture and business.

II. Speed of Change

U. S. Patent & Trademark office issued some 170,000 patent in 1999, representing a 70% increase over 1989.

III. American Social Environment

In 1998, the earnings of working wives accounted for over a third of all total two-parent household incomes, up from a quarter in 1979.

In 2000 over 70% of adult women (including 60% of women with small children at home) are employed (almost 50% of the workforce).

In 1997 the birth rate stood at 14.5 births per 1,000 Americans (lowest ever)

By 2050 those over the age of 65 will constitute 20% of the population while the very elderly, over 85, will be nearly 5%.
 

IV. Civic Society and American Culture

 
V. Where to For America

 VI. Conclusion
 

	A/P Ian Gordon	History	American Studies	NUS