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Gordon argues that all of the epochal advances, from running water and electricity to the internal combustion and jet engines, have been made.
As David explains, before electric motors were installed in factories, machines were arranged around centralized steam engines, to which they were connected by belts and pulleys.
Consider computer operating systems, business accounting software, databases, Internet search engines, silicone chips, broadband services, cable, and cellular telephony.
Most of the hydrogen-driven vehicles are powered by fuel cells, but both BMW and Mazda have converted gasoline
engines
to hydrogen fuel (spiffy V-12s for BMW, rotary
engines
for Mazda).
With expected technology improvements, the cost would drop to about $47/kW by 2015, within shouting range of the department’s target of $30/kW, a benchmark figure that more or less corresponds to today’s manufacturing cost for gasoline
engines.
Because fuel cells are about twice as efficient as internal combustion engines, the effective cost per unit of distance would be about half that.
During one council meeting, Glushko said, “My
engines
could send into space any piece of metal.”
Technically, Glushko, by government order, continued to design
engines
for Korolev, but the work wasn’t good.
Online markets have the potential to improve consumer welfare substantially, by fueling competition on price, efficiency, and customer experience, whether through search
engines
or single platforms such as Amazon.
With many of the global economy’s traditional growth
engines
– like the United States – stuck in low gear, China’s performance has become increasingly important.
The other is that they will resort to neither, and that no alternative growth
engines
will have been started, leading to an extended slowdown with unpredictable political consequences at home and serious economic consequences abroad.
With significant elements of the global economy and external demand facing headwinds, China’s acceptance (so far) of a growth slowdown, while its new growth
engines
kick in, is a good sign, in my view.
Beyond advanced microchips, the US government could order Boeing and United Technologies to withhold aircraft parts and jet
engines
on which China’s large commercial fleet depends, effectively grounding many Chinese jetliners.
This is particularly regrettable, given that there is a broad consensus regarding the technical components of the required policy response: structural reforms to revamp growth engines, efforts to rebalance aggregate demand, and the elimination of debt overhangs.
Led by China, the high-flying economies of developing Asia are increasingly viewed as the new and powerful
engines
of a multi-speed world.
It has emerged from what it calls a “century of shame” to become one of the world’s
engines
of economic development and cultural and intellectual achievement.
The prospect that such policies will be able to keep the economic
engines
humming, even at low levels, looks increasingly dim.
Foreign investment and exports have been the two main
engines
of economic recovery in countries like Poland, Slovenia, and Estonia.
To be sure, all of the large, developed economies are growing more slowly than they did when their economic
engines
were roaring.
The government must provide the context to restart the
engines
of economic recovery; and policies should serve as growth accelerators by providing development gateways for the energetic young, the restive poor, and the pressured middle class.
This requires a degree of redundancy – for example, extra
engines
and extensive backup systems – that comes at the cost of efficiency.
When James Watt built one of his famed steam engines, it was his creation, his product.
The American-Canadian author and urban activist Jane Jacobs famously observed that cities are the true
engines
of national prosperity.
This leads to underinvestment in infrastructure, education, and technology, impeding the
engines
of growth.
He recently spoke of the need to “replace today’s Web search engines, operating systems, and social networks.”
But Russia could achieve still greater success by basing its economy on two growth
engines
rather than one.
Consider black carbon, a component of the soot emissions from diesel
engines
and the inefficient burning of biomass cooking stoves that is linked to 1.6 million to 1.8 million premature deaths annually as a result of indoor exposure and 800,000 as a result of outdoor exposure.
The problem with the emergence of these new growth
engines
is that it enabled China’s leaders to delay important structural reforms.
The beneficial effect on the risk-return options available to investors/savers (including pension funds) will outweigh the higher cost of debt; indeed, an important subset of growth
engines
in the tradable sector is not dependent on low-cost debt.
Diesel
engines
and turbines are not the only alternatives; many services, like professional therapy, nursing, and teaching are available.
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