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While this was happening, the European counterparts of America's managers, with a few exceptions, have either been busy reconciling the demands of their “hard core” shareholders – composite groups of stakeholders, rarely united by common interests – or sought to secure government assistance and protection against international competition.
But import competition and labor arbitrage from emerging economies have also played a role.
Indeed, in the industries and regions hit hardest by import competition, years of simmering discontent have now boiled over, fueling support for populists promising to roll back globalization.
It reduces barriers to entry, strengthens competition, and changes the rules governing how business is done.
Mid-career retraining must be made available not only to those who have lost their jobs to foreign competition, but also to those facing disruption from the continuing march of automation.
But competition is as important as financing in determining a university's quality, because competition increases the merit of the product.
Competition between them works because it involves fighting for the best students and offering scholarships to deserving poor ones.
Also, the private nature of contracts between an American university and its professors creates healthy competition for talent and a flexible and efficient market for scientists.
During the first two decades after the Cold War, a combination of suspicion and pragmatism prevailed on both sides, with competition in some respects and cooperation in others playing a crucial role in coping with important international challenges.
These types of approaches – what I call “all good things go together” policies – could be applied to other sectors of the economy that are being squeezed by imperfect competition.
More vigorous antitrust policies, or increased consumer ownership of data, could strengthen competition and, in the process, boost efficiency and improve income distribution.
Lacking competition, inefficient bureaucracies focus more on maintaining jobs than on serving putative customers.
In recent years, slowing the pace of real exchange-rate appreciation to shelter domestic producers and employment from import competition seems to have gained clear precedence over disinflation.
The barriers to entry are negligible, because competition is just one click away.
Consequently it is the target of US complaints about unfair competition, and of efforts to force an exchange-rate adjustment that would deter Americans from buying Chinese toys, appliances, and clothing.
The EU, by design, increases economic competition, but France is ill equipped.
One after the other, most European countries have reformed their economies, shedding the cozy arrangements that used to protect every interest group from the pressure of competition.
Public education is in shambles and France’s higher education system now faces competition from other European countries.
Accordingly, the increase in public money must not be allowed to deter private-sector contributions through hidden competition or a “crowding out” effect.
The first shock was intensified globalization, which brought a lot of new low-wage competition.
But this helped Europe’s small countries more than the big ones, and it implied more competition for Germany, Europe’s biggest economy.
The fourth shock was eastern EU enlargement, which has brought extraordinary chances for trade and investment in the east, but has also brought massive low-wage competition.
Low-wage competition has led to substantial outsourcing and off-shoring activities that have kept German firms competitive by reducing their demand for domestic labor.
And productivity in the service sector – which is the least exposed to global competition – has been stagnant since the 1990s.
With all this competition, “the hurdles to achieving alpha [returns above a risk-adjusted benchmark – and thus a measure of success in picking individual investments] are getting higher and higher.”
A national economy can take off only when the necessary infrastructure, an adequate level of competition, and reasonable government policies are in place.
But polarizing new models of competition and resistance to trade are not the way to restore trust.
It will exacerbate highly unequal competition.
Greater competition and the adoption of new technologies increased the demand for, and incomes of, highly skilled, talented, and educated workers doing non-routine jobs like consulting.
In some areas, more active government involvement will be needed to ensure more effective competition.
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