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Competition in product markets is far too circumscribed.
Good government is not a competition.
Trade liberalization exposes often ill-prepared businesses to the intense pressures of international competition, and requires a wide array of often painful reforms and risky politically decisions.
The counter-argument is that increased competition is a global phenomenon.
Asia’s long history of rivalry and competition among its various powers has also been an important factor in its recent economic success.
The dynamic of competition and emulation among China, Japan, and South Korea has not existed in peacefully reconciled post-WWII Europe; there is nothing like it in Africa, either.
But the biggest reason that Thailand matters for Asia’s democracies is fierce competition for influence between a rising China and the democratic world.
Today, however, the catalytic power of Deng’s initial changes has waned, with rising wages, weakening external demand, and increasing competition from other emerging economies indicating the exhaustion of a growth model premised on exports and investment.
The path to such openness was thorny: foreign competition in the early 1990s deepened the structural problems of big Hungarian banks, a malady which faster privatization could have eased.
Of course, neither Saudi Arabia nor Iran – or Turkey, which has also joined the competition for regional influence – is seeking a direct confrontation.
For most of the relevant actors, highly perilous geopolitical competition is overshadowing vast economic opportunities.
Today, we understand that the market is rife with imperfections – including imperfections of information and competition – that provide ample opportunity for discrimination and exploitation.
But, prominent professors at Korean universities tell me that the unprecedented success of the Korean team in the current World Cup competition is causing a turning point in Korean attitudes towards their own society and economy.
Also, although admission to elite universities is as meritocratic in Korea as in the West, the outcome of the university entrance competition has a more important and more permanent effect on one's place in Korean society.
The performance of the Korean team in the 2002 World Cup competition is demonstrating to every Korean in a way that is easily seen that meritocracy yields better results than cronyism.
Likewise, open contempt of “money-hungry” businesspeople and competition is expressed more often in France than in America.
Its 1962 defeat of India was the culmination of a decade-long competition for leadership of the newly independent countries that had emerged from decolonization.
After all, if America, with its relatively low level of unemployment and social safety net, finds it must take action to protect its workers and firms against competition from abroad - whether in software or steel - such action by developing countries is all the more justified.
Rather, they tell us that competition for safe assets has heated up.
In a world with weak aggregate demand, countries are engaging in a futile competition for a greater share of it.
In addition, even though studies suggest that the short-term, directly measurable economic benefits at the national level are relatively small, and unskilled workers may suffer from competition, skilled immigrants can be important to particular economic sectors.
While one can understand the resistance of ordinary American citizens to competition from foreign immigrants during a period of high unemployment, it would be ironic if the current debate were to lead to policies that cut the US off from one of it unique sources of strength.
So strong prospects for sustained political competition are a key prerequisite for illiberal democracies to turn into liberal ones over time.
Of course, Joseph Schumpeter famously argued that one need not worry too much about monopoly rents, because competition would quickly erase the advantage.
To counter such concentration, policymakers should, first, implement smarter competition laws that focus not only on market share or pricing power, but also on the many forms of rent extraction, from copyright and patent rules that allow incumbents to cash in on old discoveries to the misuse of network centrality.
So transatlantic coordination is needed, to ensure that any trade of sophisticated arms and weapons-related technologies with China does nothing to enhance China’s military power, and that competition between Western producers of goods that may legitimately be sold to China does not damage Western political unity.
It will have to ensure that the culture of integrity underlying its success remains unchanged by the pressures of global competition.
Scandinavia’s Accounting TrickWhile most of the world’s advanced countries face increasing difficulties in coping with the forces of globalization and competition from low-wage countries, the Scandinavian countries -- Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden -- seem to have managed these challenges quite well.
Most telling in Russian eyes has been EU countries’ competition for oil and gas contracts, which has done much to convince the Kremlin that Europe is not a political force to be reckoned with.
This is a reminder that incumbency is a considerable advantage in the competition for reserve-currency status.
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