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Japan seized its opportunity in the years following World War II, using labor-intensive industries, such as textiles and simple electronics, to drive its economy until rising labor costs eroded its comparative advantage in those sectors.
And now that China, too, is beginning to lose its comparative advantage in labor-intensive industries, other developing countries – especially in Africa – are set to take its place.
There are also important examples in other industries, including plywood manufacturing in America, appliance manufacturing in Spain, and construction in Italy.
If they were the most important factor governing the success or failure of employee ownership, however, we would expect employee ownership to be most common in those industries in which workers are unusually difficult to monitor, are relatively immobile, or are extensively unionized.
Employee ownership has long been successful even in industries -- such as plywood manufacturing and investment banking -- that are both volatile and relatively capital intensive.
But these trends tended to persist within occupations, industries, and educational attainment levels, thus providing little guidance concerning what occupation to choose or how much education to pursue.
Fossil-fuel industries must have their subsidies cut off.
We have to extend our single market to services and energy, change unaffordably generous pension arrangements, invest more in research and development, reform our universities, and channel more money to the job-creating industries of the future, like environmental technology.
Trump’s administration might be tempted to address this group’s problems in isolation, with inward-looking policies targeting specific industries, or by attempting to limit trade competition.
Instead of using fiscal stimulus in a vain effort to revive failed smokestack industries and old energy sources, Trump’s administration – and the world – should place its bets on a low-carbon future.
These policies comprised the structural adjustment programs (SAPs) of the 1980s and 1990s, when developing countries were forced to cut social programs, privatize public services, deregulate industries, eliminate trade protection, and make their labor markets more “flexible” (a euphemism for making it easier to fire workers).
This does not mean that China should rescue outdated local industries.
For our industry to remain an instrument of progress, we must therefore work closely with our peers from other industries and government in three major areas: safety, the environment, and affordability.
Gansu’s challenges range from modernizing its heavy industries to resisting desertification and the encroachment of the Gobi desert.
But perhaps the strongest message is being sent via targeted sanctions on Russia’s oil, finance, defense, and technology industries, as well as on Russian officials.
Great bankers of the past like J.P. Morgan built industries like rail and steel.
More generally, governments should expand the role of national and multilateral development banks (including the regional development banks for Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Islamic countries) to channel long-term saving from pension funds, insurance funds, and commercial banks into long-term public and private investments in twenty-first-century industries and infrastructure.
Over the longer term, a strong currency promotes efficiency in export industries, further insulating competitiveness from exchange-rate effects.
With the developing world relying almost totally on innovation from the rich countries, many of the most pressing problems that are unique to poorer countries remain neglected by the world's scientists and leading high-technology industries.
Importantly, they invest heavily in higher education and in science and technology, so they remain at the cutting edge of high-technology industries.
For example, reporting only the total number of jobs added in India from 2011 to 2015 – an increase of about seven million – misses the shift from agriculture toward non-farm jobs in the construction, trade, and transport industries.
On pollution, the obvious prescription is for Foshan to move to cleaner industries.
But, in terms of growth and living standards, the cost of economic diversification, when implemented by protecting domestic industries from foreign competition, eventually outweighs the benefits.
The rhetoric of energy independence in the oil-consuming countries makes the situation even worse: the oil-producing countries are building energy-intensive industries to guarantee a market for their oil once consuming nations wean themselves of imported oil.
One way to gauge India’s relationship with Russia – as well as with the US and even Israel – is to allow for increased foreign investment in domestic defense industries, including more co-production initiatives.
Yet the opportunities – to keep the global temperature rise this century to under two degrees Celsius, and to generate decent employment in clean-tech industries for millions of people – far outweigh the challenges.
From the first telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore, constructed by the Federal government in 1842, to the modern internet, from agricultural extension services in the 19th century to military related research in the 20th and 21st, new industries were promoted through a quiet, market-oriented, industrial policy.
And the digital revolution is disrupting entire industries in ways that could benefit the planet.
Fortunately, there is abundant evidence that countries and industries can thrive without contributing to climate change.
At the same time, all industries, from information technology to agriculture, depend on services provided by nature.
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