An Economic Perspective on the Southwest: Defining the Decade : Proceedings of the 1990 Conference on the Southwest Economy Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Proceedings of the 1990 Conference on the Southwest Economy Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Changing International Marketplace....Pages 3-12 A Decade of Decisions....Pages 13-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 America Has Made the World Safe for Democracy. Now What?....Pages 21-48 Germany as a Marketplace....Pages 49-56 Prospects for a U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement: Lessons from Canada....Pages 57-64 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 Making the Future Work....Pages 67-73 Business Development from R&D to Innovation....Pages 75-81 The Third Deficit: The Shortfall in Public Investment....Pages 83-88 Financing the Future: Private and Public Funding....Pages 89-106 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Oil: Alternative Perspectives on the Decade....Pages 109-120 Exploration and Development in the 1990s: Impact on the Southwest....Pages 121-125 Oil in the 1990s: Boom or Bust?....Pages 127-131 Front Matter....Pages 133-133 The Southwest Economy: A Prologue for the Future....Pages 135-143 The Future of the Texas Economy....Pages 145-154