Learning from the World

1. Foreword: Jeffrey Sachs 2. Introduction: A New Approach to Redevelop America; Joe Colombano and Aniket Shah PART I: MACROECONOMIC CHALLENGES 3. Global Financial Integration, China, and the Role of America; Ning Zhu 4. A Lesson from the South for Fiscal Policy in the US and other Advanced Countries; Jeffrey Frankel 5. Breaking Through on Job Creation; Bill Drayton 6. Taming Deficits: Automatic Debt Breaks and Participatory Democracy in Switzerland; Thomas Held and Simon Ingold PART II: INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK AND POLICY TOOLS 7. The German Labor Market in the Great Recession: Lessons for Other Countries; Felix Hüfner, Andreas Wörgötter and Caroline Klein 8. A New Housing Finance System for the US? Lessons from the Danish Model; Morten Baekmand Nielsen and Jesper Berg 9. For a National Investment Bank; Robert Skidelsky and Felix Martin PART III: INFRASTRUCTURE, INNOVATION, AND COMPETITIVENESS 10. Boosting Export Growth: Lessons from Korea; Abraham Kim and Whitney Haring-Smith 11. Smart Cities, Smart US: International Models; Nashid Nabian 12. Brazil: An Emerging Economic Power Committed to Sustainability; Emma Torres, Sérgio Besserman Vianna and Kevin Currey PART IV: SOCIAL POLICIES 13. Health for America: European Arguments for a Paradigm Shift; B. Serdar Sava? and Tomris Cesuroglu 14. Closing the Health Gap: Lessons from Africa; Prabhjot Singh 15. National Education Policy and Programs: Insights from Finland; Timo Lankinen and Kristiina Kumpulainen 16. For a Human Rights Approach to Health and Housing: Lessons from Japan and the Netherlands; Mila Rosenthal 17. What Has Caused America's Economic Inequality and What Does It Mean for America's Future?; Zachary Michaelson PART V: POLICY AND VALUES 18. The Listening State; Christian Madsbjerg 19. The Economic Opportunity of Improving Peace in the United States; Steve Killelea and Camilla Schippa 20. Individual Freedom in a Gandhian Perspective; Sudarshan Iyengar 21. Dialogue on the Destinies of Nations; Karma Ura Conclusion 22. The America We Want; Joe Colombano and Aniket Shah