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Only the Weak SurviveTOKYO – The risk of global currency and trade wars is rising, with most economies now engaged in competitive devaluations.
So the competitive devaluation war in which we find ourselves is a zero-sum game: one country’s gain is some other country’s loss.
But the truth is that both parties are hiding from the reality: without more taxes, a modern, competitive US economy is not possible.
China’s unprecedented economic rise, which has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty over the last three decades, was a result of economic decentralization and freer, more competitive markets – not clever government planning, as some like to claim.
Similarly, the governments of Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, among others, are working to build industrial sectors that are diversified, globally competitive, environmentally sustainable, and capable of improving their people’s living standards significantly.
The price of solar energy is already plummeting: the National Bank of Abu Dhabi has noted that a large solar installation in Dubai could produce energy at a price that would be competitive with oil at $10 per barrel.
This arises when executives have overly narrow views of their industry, underestimate their competitors’ capabilities, or fail to see how the competitive landscape is changing.
Many executive teams are overconfident about their company’s competitive strength.
Unfortunately, this kind of arrogance can lead to complacency and competitive failure.
They are under constant competitive pressures; shareholders expect a return on their investment.
They retain their intellectual autonomy, but could only have won their university posts - and thereby access to research facilities - on the basis of competitive assessments of the originality and promise of their published research.
In March 2000, EU leaders meeting in Lisbon set the goal of making Europe the world’s most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy by 2010, and two years later they agreed that investment in R&D must reach 3% of GDP by 2010.
Generous export incentives have helped firms break into competitive global markets.
Given its risks and the gap between its social and private benefits, innovation requires rents – returns above what competitive markets provide.
At first sight, it seems counterintuitive that companies would want to share data and potentially give away competitive advantages.
But this presupposes that the possession of such data does indeed imply a competitive advantage, and that a closed operating model is financially sustainable.
Second, advocates of a German exit argue that its economy is too competitive to share a currency with weaker players like Italy, France, and Spain.
The eurozone’s survival requires, first and foremost, that all of its member countries have strong and flexible economies, which means that all of them must undertake continuous efforts to remain competitive.
Wondering whether more (or less) competitive economies should leave the monetary union might be an interesting intellectual exercise.
Is it in more competitive labor markets or in better tax systems or in deregulation?
As the dollar appreciated in international markets, these economies became less competitive and experienced sharp deteriorations in their current-account positions.
Firms that wanted to do the right thing, to spend the money to reduce their emissions, now worry that doing so would put them at a competitive disadvantage as others continue to emit without restraint.
European firms will continue to be at a competitive disadvantage relative to American firms, which bear no cost for their emissions.
Firms in those industries were not viable in an open, competitive market.
For example, policymakers must defuse the competitive pressures between food and fuel by designing schemes to counter price volatility for basic foodstuffs.
Brutally competitive in both politics and world markets, innovative and resilient, China will be more dominant than any nation save America.
Without reform of higher education, France cannot be remotely competitive with British and American institutions.
That was certainly my guess in the late 1970s, when the rise of computers was one of the main reasons I gave for retiring from competitive chess.
Likewise, competitive chess has eliminated long breaks that might give players time to consult computers, which become more and more useful as pieces are exchanged, and the game becomes more amenable to brute-force calculation.
Men must determine how to develop the caring side of their personality, in addition to the competitive side that will enable them to advance their careers.
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