... ofGlobalization. Cross-Cutting Issues in Asia, the United States, and the Global Economy Charl esWolf, Jr.R Straddling Economics and Politics 4 Straddling Economics and Politics The phenomenon recalls the ... order@rand.orgLibrary of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication DataWolf, Charles, 1924– Straddling economics and politics : cross-cutting issues in Asia, the United States, and the global economy ... of the Vietnam war as an all-pur-pose scapegoat for anything that went wrong in the 1960s and 1970s:stagflation in the United States, the drug culture in the United States and Europe, even the...