Comparison
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But a
comparison
with what happened outside the affected area is instructive.
Yet as difficult as these problems are, they pale in
comparison
to the foregone output of America’s anemic post-crisis recovery.
But a more interesting
comparison
is with her other presidential contemporary, George H. W. Bush.
The demographic challenges facing advanced economies are slight in
comparison.
In fact, the numbers are high – not in
comparison
with a country like Turkey, but certainly relative to other European Union countries.
The
comparison
here is to the Cold War period.
Nevertheless, the poor in industrialized nations will remain, in most cases, poor only by
comparison
with those who are better off.
A long-serving editor of the British Sun newspaper, for example, was recently dismissed for a column making a racist
comparison
between a soccer player and a gorilla.
China’s problems make those afflicting the US polity seem trivial in
comparison.
Trump’s rash outbursts have allowed North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un to present himself practically as a peacemaker by
comparison
– a development that may open the way for that highly dangerous regime to maintain its nuclear arsenal far into the future.
But even this
comparison
involves a selection bias.
The commercial potential of the Internet, the human genome project, and robotics pales in
comparison
with that of the spinning jenny, the steam engine, and indoor plumbing.
Any
comparison
of the Baltics with the Great Depression (or the United States today) is thus meaningless.
One problem in the past was that income inequality – and its link to social and health problems – was overlooked in
comparison
to measures of national wealth, such as average income (GDP per capita).
But all of these mistakes pale in
comparison
with what China did to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in July.
These measures, which still pale in
comparison
to what is granted to conventional fossil fuels, will be reduced over time as economies of scale are realized and costs fall.
But that pales in
comparison
to the $600 increase in per capita income in 2013.
Were that to happen, the challenges facing the world today would pale in
comparison.
The debate over the American embargo pales in
comparison
- removed to a far corner of the mind - to the obstructive domestic situation that envelops them.
But it also creates safety valves, alternative forums, bases of comparison, sources of new ideas, and potential arenas for innovation.
Only a year ago, any
comparison
between the summer of 1914 and today would have seemed artificial.
This, of course, will be painful for banks, but their pain will be nothing in
comparison
to the suffering they have inflicted on people throughout the rest of the global economy.
Sectors with a higher human capital content – electronic consumer goods, for example – have much higher R&D costs than the shoe sector, so manufacturing these goods on an assembly line in a low-cost country is probably not very costly in
comparison
to R&D and other intangible costs.
But the financial implications of the crisis pale in
comparison
to the human and political costs.
If the base of
comparison
is the eve of the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis (which later spread as far as Moscow and Buenos Aires), it is clear that, in most countries, vulnerabilities have lessened.
But if the base of
comparison
is 2007, just before the global financial crisis, a somewhat different picture emerges.
By comparison, from 1993 to 2005, advanced-economy real incomes remained flat or fell in less than 2% of households.
(For comparison, in the first half of the twentieth century, the two world wars caused a death rate in Europe of not much more than 3%.)
But, beyond the moral obtuseness of the comparison, this approach simply is not useful.
This is not the way colonialism usually works, for those still insisting on that
comparison.
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