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Market competition is not only compatible with a zero-carbon economy.
Carbon prices and appropriate regulation can provide the required incentives, but competition among profit-motivated firms is crucial to ensuring that decarbonization is achieved at the lowest possible cost.
Vibrant capitalist economies have always depended on a carefully calibrated balance between government policy and private competition.
Judging by governments’ reactions to the crisis, one could be forgiven for thinking that market regulators and competition authorities should take the lead when an economy is stable, and that industrial policies should be implemented in times of emergency.
National competition authorities in countries like Britain were silenced.
Europe should have used its regulatory power and managed the conflict between systemic and competitive risk that all this emergency public funding was generating, but the competition watchdog’s contradictory request that companies receiving funding should reduce credit to their clients made this well nigh impossible.
The Commission’s competition lawyers announced that they would look into all national clauses, but GM’s recovery and the slow implementation of the German scheme ended up undermining the Magna solution.
The difficulties that EU governments face in managing the financial crisis are raising serious questions about whether national industrial policy and the Union’s competition rules can co-exist.
Moreover, for every South Korea, and every Hong Kong, we can also find developing countries where expanding education merely fueled competition for white-collar jobs in a bloated, deadweight state bureaucracy.
Jobs could be eliminated by technology, but not by global competition; and, unsustainable, debt-fueled domestic-demand growth helped to delay the current employment deficits.
First, the tradable part of the global economy – where competition for economic activity and jobs is direct – is becoming a larger share of the whole; the same is true of individual economies.
National leaders could influence domestic fiscal and monetary policy and, apparently, bring about jobs or enhance competition.
No crystal ball is needed to know that intensifying global resource competition means that Europeans must use their combined weight in world markets, and in dealing with emerging economic giants in Asia and elsewhere.
Likewise, the proposition that rent controls reduce the supply of housing is violated under conditions of imperfect competition.
The promised structural reforms of the energy sector, labor market, and competition policy have yet to be introduced, and appear unlikely to take effect anytime soon.
The key here, as in Japan, is to foster greater competition in services.
The German government, whether it likes it or not, cannot escape the effects of global tax competition.
Moreover, such a move could boost Iran’s appeal in the European energy market, creating unwanted competition for Russia.
Competition among localities – for example, between states for businesses and workers, and between school districts for students – can lead to more efficient and effective allocation of public resources.
As with competition in private markets, competition in government services leads to better outcomes.
While the Doha negotiators have settled many important issues, the final negotiations first stalled last year, owing to America’s refusal to cut its agricultural subsidies further and India’s insistence on special safeguards to prevent exposing its millions of subsistence farmers to unfairly subsidized US competition.
Some of his administration’s initiatives, such as the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, seemed anti-business to some at the time, but have long since been accepted as a boon to competition and dynamism by hemming in unfair or manipulative behavior.
But this process has been politicized and ridden by an acute behind-the-scenes competition for influence among the major powers.
There are three compelling reasons to ban such drugs: assuring all athletes that the competition is fair; preserving the integrity of the athlete; and safeguarding what gives sport its meaning and value.
Universities, in turn, can become caught in a zero-sum competition of ever-increasing expenditure to attract paying students.
And rapidly rising student debt – up from $400 billion to $1.3 trillion in the US alone since 2005 – may partly be financing more intense competition for high-paid jobs, not socially required investments in human capital.
The change is notable because both the US and Canada have long protected their dairy farmers from competition, even more than the rest of their agricultural sectors.
Over the centuries, governments have always been concerned to protect "their" local poor and unskilled from immigrant competition.
But global competition cannot be the main story.
Some of the building blocks of durable democracy have been byproducts of sustained industrialization: an organized labor movement, disciplined political parties, and political competition organized around a right-left axis.
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