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With the world’s fastest-growing economies, fastest-rising military expenditures, fiercest resource competition, and most serious hot spots, Asia obviously holds the key to the future global order.
It must cope with entrenched territorial and maritime disputes, such as in the South China Sea; harmful historical legacies that weigh down its most important interstate relationships; increasingly fervent nationalism; growing religious extremism; and sharpening competition over water and energy.
For example, as China, India, and Japan maneuver for strategic advantage, they are transforming their mutual relations in a way that portends closer strategic engagement between India and Japan, and sharper competition between them and China.
Despite the well-documented limitations of these measures, their simplicity – not to mention the competition inherent to scientific progress – makes them widely appealing.
Managing a World of Great PowersMADRID – Today, great-power competition is a fact: The United States now competes with an increasingly active Russia and a rising China.
During the last 15 years of mounting great-power competition and renewed instability in the Middle East – including the Arab Spring, the rise of the brutal Islamic State, Sunni-Shia proxy wars, and unspeakable human suffering – change has been very intense, to say the least.
For example, during the Great Depression, US President Herbert Hoover signed the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, intended to protect American workers and farmers from foreign competition.
Until the government forced fund managers to participate in auctions, there was little market competition (surveys reveal that most people are not aware of the fees they pay).
But the new competition between EU member states and a non-member UK could lead to renewed investments in science and technology within those countries.
The old European nation-states will be no match for the new competition unless they are united.
There is another dimension to profit-sharing that has received little attention, related to monopolies and competition.
In particular, politicians need to be willing to confront teachers’ unions, which have traditionally resisted reforms that introduce competition and accountability.
But, starting with the US and EU, rich countries fear increasing unemployment due to competition from developing countries armed with cheap labour.
For innovation is what creates wealth and employment, despite -- or, rather because of -- competition from poor countries.
This, in turn, would bring greater gains from trade, stronger competition, larger cross-border capital flows, lower borrowing costs, and more opportunities for sharing risk, all of which were expected ultimately to boost investment and productivity.
Furthermore, because of the inevitable failures in the fidelity of the process, replication necessarily led also to variation (in replicable form), hence to competition among variant lineages for available resources.
In the service sector, the decline is even worse than in manufacturing, because services are heavily regulated and partially closed to foreign competition.
With some 40% of the population uncommitted to either camp, the competition between the two forces is far from resolution.
The need for further Italian public resources could be acceptable if the European Commission’s competition authority were to play a role in the governance of Atlante.
And if Britain wants to entice multinationals as a springboard to the European market, it will have to conform to EU rules on competition and other matters.
So long as the USSR did not stage a military attack, containment’s reliance on economic sticks and carrots, competition within the world communist movement, intelligence and diplomacy, and promoting the vitality of the capitalist democracies would guarantee security.
Look around the economy, and it’s striking how much high-talent manpower is devoted to activities that cannot possibly increase human welfare, but entail competition for the available economic pie.
If rents and commuting costs are driven up by intense competition for attractively located property, you can’t pay for them out of freely arising “consumer surplus.”
Because they are subject to greater competition, export activities tend to undergo faster technological and productivity improvements than other parts of the economy.
While diversification into new areas is always challenging, it is particularly difficult for tradable activities, which have to face foreign competition from the start.
For many years, economists have been arguing that private property and competition are good for productivity and investment, relying upon a comparison between the natural gas and oil sectors.
Though the Russian leadership denies that it is implementing state capitalism and affirms its commitment to privatization and competition, the Rosneft deal is a bold statement to the contrary.
First, eurozone countries must implement reforms aimed at boosting wage and price flexibility through enhanced competition and improved labor and capital mobility within and between member countries.
But, with strategic competition between the US and China as delicately poised as it is, and with the economic interests of Australia, Japan, and many others in the region bound up just as intensely with China as their security interests are with the US, rocking the boat carries serious risks.
The key to such a system is embracing the role that competition can play in delivering better education to students.
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