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He is the author of the best-selling book on U.S.-Japan relations, Trading Places, and co-author and editor of several other books on international trade and business strategy including Asia After the Miracle, Powernomics, Bit by Bit, and The New North American Trade Order. Before joining the Commerce Department, Prestowitz was a senior businessman in the United States, Europe, Japan, and throughout Asia and Latin America.

He regularly writes for leading publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. He was the vice chairman of the President's Committee on Trade and Investment in the Pacific and sits on the board of the US Member Committee of Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC). The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... ... This article is about a journal. ... The Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC) is a loosely binding economic agreement between certain members of the Pacific countries where different governments and corporations co-operate and discuss their economic affairs. ...

Mr. Prestowitz has a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College, an M.A. in East-West Policies and Economics from the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He also studied at Keio University in Tokyo. He is fluent in Japanese, Dutch, German, and French. Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,450 students. ... This article is about the University of Hawaii system. ... Wharton School Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Keio University ) is the top private university in Japan, which has a history as Japans very first private institution of higher learning, which dates back to the formation of a school for Dutch studies in 1858 in Edo (now Tokyo) by founder Yukichi Fukuzawa. ...

Books & Articles

• Don't Pester Europe on Genetically Modified Food New York Times Op-Ed January 24, 2003
• The South Korean Firehose The Globalist July 25, 2005, link
• Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth And Power to the East, 2005
• Rogue Nation - American Unilateralism and The Failure of Good Intentions, 2003

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Multimedia

• Three Billion New Capitalists. Audio of discussion from Carnegie Council on June 1, 2005.
• The World Turned Upside Down: The Impact of the Return of India and China to their Historical Global Weight MIT world Video - 04-04-06

• In Depth: Tuff Enough? Can the US continue to command the attention of world markets when the dollar is dropping and free trade is flourishing? PBS' Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria, aired on August 4, 2006. _Transcript
• Three Billion New Capitalists book interview on ABC Radio Australia, July 11, 2006

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External links

• Economic Strategy Institute
• Clyde Prestowitz discusses, Three Billion New Capitalists, at the Carnegie Council
• Clyde Prestowitz discusses, Rogue Nation, at the Carnegie Council.