The Development of Foreign Competition in American Markets Is Used

question 97

Multiple Choice

The development of foreign competition in American markets is used in your text to illustrate

• A) some of the ways in which political factors are used to control the American economy.
• B) how inferior products from Europe and Japan have gained a foothold in the American market despite superior American technology.
• C) the failures of U.S. constitutional principles when they come into competition with different practices of other nations.
• D) several of the structural factors that shape American politics.
• E) all of the above

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