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In the past, local-level experimentation and innovation have proved integral to China’s progress, with competition among provinces, cities, and firms often helping the country to break out of bureaucratic and structural logjams.
In a global competition, a superpower’s competitors are bound to exploit its weaknesses.
The EU has just rejected such an offer, partly owing to a sentiment of wounded pride, but also because EU competition rules might make it difficult to organize a cartel of European steel producers.
Yes, Russia remains too dependent on oil and gas, and should move further on transparency, openness, and competition in business and governance.
The goal was to spur overall economic growth by encouraging competition among regions.
In a market economy, however, competition rapidly leads to emulation, and high profits associated with an original innovation turn out to be transitory.
Some people would answer that it is, because competition in markets ensures that workers are paid for what they produce; other people would answer that it isn’t, because the owners of capital shamelessly exploit those workers.
Western analysts have tended either to dismiss Turkmenistan as a human rights pariah, or to approach the country simply as a source of natural gas in the ongoing pipeline competition involving Western Europe and Russia.
Moreover, while some EU countries, such as Germany, benefit significantly from China’s economic development, others view competition from China as problematic.
By including the other components of public investment and single-market completion, the Merkel Plan (or, better, the Merkel-Hollande-Cameron Plan) would be able to restart economic growth while opening countries to more trade and greater competition.
This pits farmers and animal-feed producers against one another in a fierce competition over land.
For many people, the competition for land is a fight for survival.
All this competition has led to considerable hand-wringing in the West.
During a 2008 campaign stop, for instance, then-candidate Barack Obama spoke in alarmed tones about the threat that such academic competition poses to US competitiveness.
In some countries, worries about educational competition and brain drains have led to outright academic protectionism.
There is every reason to believe that the worldwide competition for human talent, the race to produce innovative research, the push to extend university campuses to multiple countries, and the rush to train talented graduates who can strengthen increasingly knowledge-based economies will be good for the US as well.
Just as free trade provides the lowest-cost goods and services, benefiting both consumers and the most efficient producers, global academic competition is making free movement of people and ideas, on the basis of merit, more and more the norm, with enormously positive consequences for individuals, universities, and countries.
As geopolitical competition heats up, voters will turn to tough leaders whom they trust to uphold narrow national interests.
Most important, from Russia’s perspective, the competition with the EU over Ukraine’s trading alignment is trivial compared to the imperative of keeping NATO – that is, the US military – out of the country.
Research spending should be made more effective by scrapping bureaucratic management by the Commission and Council and opening all national research funds to EU-wide competition.
Perhaps more than any other global actor, Europe – not just the EU, but all of Europe – has an interest in the continuation of a liberal order founded more on cooperation than on competition.
And it has facilitated unprecedented peace and prosperity in a region long wracked by conflict and competition.
These lessons are reflected in North’s assessment of Western Europe’s institutional and economic development, in which he attributed the Industrial Revolution to two key factors: varying belief systems and intense competition between and within the emerging sovereign powers.
For starters, intense competition is alive and well in China.
And the competition that Cisco faces from Huawei of China is what likely drove Chambers’ recent appeal to Obama.
This should happen automatically through the invisible hand of competition, because the more productive firms should be able to deliver a better product at a lower price, while luring workers with higher wages.
It is also possible, however, that the drop in the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers represents competition from increasingly intelligent machines.
Of course, there is also a healthy element of competition.
Fair, rules-based competition in a rapidly expanding global economy is far from a zero-sum game.
The second problem is inadequate competition.
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