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This question is taken up here with this book which scrutinises America's enchantment with competition. Rosenau's inquiry finds little evidence of competition's benefits and much on its harmful effects. Research from biology to psychology to international relations shows that unbridled competition compromises individual health, threatens the quality of community life, lowers commercial productivity, increases inequality and jeopardises globalisation. Yet Rosenau does not condemn all competition. Instead she distinguishes between its constructive and destructive forms, pointing to a new workplace and policies that can enhance life and productivity.

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A scorching critique of a key tenet of our economy, polity, and society, written with conviction; a true tour de force.--Amitai Etzioni, The George Washington University

At a moment when in the Knowledge Economy, the logic of competition is rebuilding around innovation, trust, knowledge-sharing and alliances, The Competition Paradigm arrives just in time. This book is truly excellent and it should be an even greater success than Professor Rosenau 's Post-Modernism in the Social Sciences. It will undoubtedly be considered controversial but, the argument is so solidly supported by research evidence that this book will become a main reference on the subject.--Arnaud Sales

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Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau is professor of management and policy science at the University of Texas.

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