Home About Eamonn Fingleton Author of In the Jaws of the Dragon; Unsustainable; In Praise of Hard Industries; Blindside; and the Penguin Money Book Forty years of Foresight A retrospective on Fingleton's record as a commentator About In the Jaws of the Dragon A 2008 book in which Fingleton challenges the Washington view that China is converging to Western values About In Praise of Hard Industries Published in 1999 and subtitled Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity, this was Fingleton's challenge to America's exaggerated hopes for the New Economy About Blindside Fingleton's controversial 1995 book on why the Japanese economic system is not capitalism -- and how "basket case" Japan secretly seized the lead in advanced manufacturing when Washington wasn't looking About Unsustainable.org Named for the headline over an article Fingleton published in the American Prospect in 2000, Unsustainable.org was founded in 2001 as the Internet's first site on America's trade disaster Amazon.com on Hard Industries Amazon's business editor named Hard Industries one of the ten best books of 1999 Business Week on Blindside One of the best books of the year Finding Fingleton's Books Navigating Amazon's problematical catalog 中文 [For Chinese Speakers] 冯艾盟先生简介。。。馮艾盟先生簡介 日本語 [For Japanese Speakers] エーモン・フィングルトン略歴 Links Archives 2001--2007

Archives 2001--2007 Piranhas in the Amazon System Sunday, February 10, 2008 Authors have always taken on vested interests. Now vested interests have found a new way to strike back.   Innocents (Not) Abroad: China's Orwellian Tourism Policy Thursday, September 21, 2006 In a policy that is anathema to the United States, the Beijing government keeps close tabs on Chinese citizens abroad. Now Beijing is insisting on Washington's complicity in an Orwellian program to monitor Chinese tourists visiting the United States. Washington is having none of it and the result is the latest flashpoint in Sino-American trade relations. At a time when the Sino-American trade gap is already the largest between any two nations in history, the United States, uniquely among major Western nations, is being cut out of a rapidly growing torrent of Chinese tourist dollars. [This article first appeared in The American Prospect on September 9, 2006.]   Can Anyone Compete with China? Lessons from Japan Monday, August 08, 2005 For more than a decade now we have been told that the world's most advanced economies face a common fate in this era of Chinese economic expansion: massive layoffs in manufacturing and ever-rising trade deficits. Such reports, suggesting that there is something inevitable and inexorable about the decline of manufacturing in advanced nations, have served powerfully to tranquilize American public opinion at a time when America's trade deficits have gone from merely horrendous to truly disastrous. Yet as the example of Japan shows, advanced nations can and do compete to win against China.   The Sphinx in Winter Monday, March 01, 2004 Americas burgeoning trade deficits threaten Greenspans legacy. [This article first appeared in the March 1, 2004 issue of the American Conservative.]   For a vision of Iraq, the Japan model fails Tuesday, March 18, 2003 This article, predicting the Bush administration's current fiasco in Iraq, was published two days before the Iraq war began.   Fritz Is All Hat and No Cattle Monday, December 17, 2001 A former American ambassador to Tokyo has been boasting about his success in opening the Japanese market. Unfortunately the good news has not produced any improvement in the U.S.-Japan trade deficits.