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

One — Defining the Decade.- The Changing International Marketplace.- A Decade of Decisions.- Two — The Changing International Marketplace.- America Has Made the World Safe for Democracy. Now What?.- Germany as a Marketplace.- Prospects for a U.S.—Mexico Free Trade Agreement: Lessons from Canada.- Three — Investing in the Future.- Making the Future Work.- Business Development from R&D to Innovation.- The Third Deficit.: The Shortfall in Public Investment.- Financing the Future: Private and Public Funding.- Four —Perspectives on the Energy Market.- Oil: Alternative Perspectives on the Decade.- Exploration and Development in the 1990s:Impact on the Southwest.- Oil in the 1990s: Boom or Bust.- Five — The Future of the Southwest Economy.- The Southwest Economy: A Prologue for the Future.- The Future of the Texas Economy.