... RAND using its own funds Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Wolf, Charles, 1924– Straddling economics and politics : cross-cutting issues in Asia, the United States, and the global ... Globalization Straddling Economics and Politics The phenomenon recalls the role of the Vietnam war as an all-purpose scapegoat for anything that went wrong in the 1960s and 1970s: stagflation in the United ... Illarionov, and Marvin Krause In Asia, for example, this camp contends that the financial meltdown, beginning with the collapse of the Thai baht in July 1997 and then rapidly extending to the other...