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The US economy is still rather closed (imports and exports account on average for only about 15% of GDP), and historically exports have never been the main engine of its growth.
From the steam engine to the personal computer, inventions have transformed societies in complex ways.
At the same time, the traditional engine of economic development – industrialization – is likely to operate at much lower capacity.
Indeed, he suggests that today’s technological innovations pale in significance compared to earlier advances like electricity, running water, the internal combustion engine, and other breakthroughs that are now more than a century old.
Will it affect their love affair with the internal combustion engine and air conditioning?
Rising from political wilderness, the Sonia-led Congress showed that it had the grit and gumption to be an engine of change.
Why China’s Cities Will Drive Global GrowthSHANGHAI – For 15 years, China has been a key engine of global growth.
When Europe was confronted with a security challenge after Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, the Franco-German engine ran rather efficiently.
Indeed, with Asia becoming the engine driving the world economy, the need to achieve lasting peace and prosperity has never been greater, because the global knock-on effect of any threat to regional stability would be enormous.
Trade is also an engine of political and economic reform.
Lewis turned Boeke’s idea on its head, arguing that labor migration from traditional agriculture to modern industrial activities is the engine of economic development.
These gaps are problematic, but, as Lewis emphasized, they also constitute a potential engine for economic growth.
As is often the case, anti-Semitism fuels their common engine.
Rudolf Diesel’s first engine, designed in the late 1800s, ran on fuel derived from peanut oil.
As a practical political matter, it is far easier to funnel tax monies to social programs when a nation’s economic pie is growing than when it is not, and free trade remains an engine of growth.
Just 15 months later, in May of this year, a retrofitted Corolla demo model with an engine from Detroit-based Azure Dynamics was on display at the Electric Vehicle Symposium, a trade show in Stavanger, Norway.
If you want to start an electric engine company, learn how to retrofit a gasoline engine, or simply figure out what you could do with your own car, go to www.ecars-now.org .
Both spirit and the necessary financial institutions must be present to enable "creative destruction" - the force Joseph Schumpeter argued sixty years was the engine of capitalist prosperity - to be unleashed.
But if these two big players, both struggling to regain their luster, recognize the potential for the talks to be an engine for global trade reform, vital political will could and should be generated – particularly if European officials can develop a bit of Abe’s boldness.
In Germany, by contrast, the tradable sector is an employment engine.
The almighty American consumer was the engine of global growth, but it will most likely continue to sputter even after the banks are repaired.
In the past, jets flying into ash from volcanoes in the US, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Mexico have temporarily lost engine power, and in one case, dropped thousands of feet, although all managed to land safely.
In the end, after test flights with no passengers aboard had shown no engine damage, and aircraft engine manufacturers told aviation authorities that their engines could operate safely with a low level of ash in the atmosphere, Europe’s skies were reopened.
The fact that they often do not indicates that users find Google’s search engine more appealing.
For domestic demand to act as an engine of growth, policies should shift resources from investment to consumption.
Many argue that a US recession will no longer affect the world because China has supplanted America as an engine of the global economy.
Arguably, the biggest economic impact of Britain’s coal industry in the late seventeenth century was that it encouraged the development of the steam engine as a way to pump water out of mines.
But the steam engine went on to revolutionize manufacturing and transportation, changing world history and Britain’s place in it – and increasing the usefulness to Britain of having coal in the first place.
Would the US not be better off by using its capacity to tax natural gas to stimulate the development of the contemporary technological equivalent of the revolutionary engine?
But, even if political implications are put aside, it would be a tragedy if the most potent poverty-reduction engine the world has ever known were to experience a notable slowdown.
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