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The US government cannot be expected to
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a once-in-a-generation boom to make life smoother overseas.
Having borne the brunt of the blame for the government shutdown of October 2013, Republican leaders decided to
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their more radical “Tea Party” members and refrain from similar dead-end showdowns in 2014.
That partnership has five components: wider opportunities for education in order to produce a workforce with cutting-edge skills; investment in infrastructure – roads, power plants, and ports – that supports commerce; funds for research and development to expand the frontiers of knowledge in ways that generate new products; an immigration policy that attracts and retains talented people from beyond America’s borders; and business regulations strong enough to prevent disasters such as the near-meltdown of the financial system in 2008 but not so stringent as to
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the risk-taking and innovation that produce growth.
What are being sold as “free-trade agreements” include IP provisions that could
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access to affordable medicines, with a potentially significant impact on economic growth and development.
Still, politicians and maybe even some central bankers continue to be concerned about the currency, because they fear that a stronger euro could
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exports, thus weakening overall economic performance.
Instead, it should pursue a “balanced” intellectual property regime: because knowledge itself is the most important input in the production of knowledge, a badly designed intellectual property regime can
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innovation – as has been the case in America in some areas.
Baker’s threat of prosecution in a room full of reporters seemed intended to
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serious national-security reporting.
Just as Trump has walked back his denigration of America’s European and Asian allies, he should
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his inclination for protectionism and unilateral action.
It can
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public debate.
To
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the independent judiciary and free media.
As China’s economy becomes more complex, the absence of transparent and accountable governance processes, combined with frequent crackdowns on civil society and efforts to enforce conformity and discipline, will ultimately
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entrepreneurship and innovation.
But knee-jerk reaction to
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the exchange-rate appreciation that should follow from strong productivity growth only stokes more inflows.
Curtailing prices, they say, would choke off R&D and
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innovation.
But it can also
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development.
Oppressive, blanket regulation, which may be necessary in complex and unpredictable financial markets, may not be relevant in a rural community – or, worse, it may
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efforts to promote financial inclusion.
The trade war is a ham-fisted and nearly incoherent attempt by the Trump administration to stall China’s economic ascent by trying to
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the country’s exports and access to Western technology.
Its creditors believed that this approach would
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growth even more, so they advocated increasing the tax base, such as by eliminating the lower value-added tax rates enjoyed by Greek islands, instead.
If we are going to stem the tide of corruption in Europe, it is imperative that EU institutions respond to breaches of the bloc’s foundational values, starting with the attempts to
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NGOs and the free press.
While industries and consumers in China would also be hurt by a trade war, that country’s leaders can overrule interest groups and
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protests.
When so much power is concentrated in one place, it is tempting to
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criticism about how that power is used.
By taking advantage of its “choke point” position in the Huawei supply chain, the Trump administration’s China containment campaign is seen as seeking to
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those aspirations.
Furthermore, excessive government control is often the first step toward crony capitalism, whereby a few big firms use the levers of state power to
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competition and repress wages.
At this rate, Hungary’s government soon will not need to ask a foreign government to
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media criticism.
Given the power of major tech companies to
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competition, reversing these trends will require government intervention.
Blocking ideas can
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creativity and impede the correction of policy mistakes.
China has also taken steps to
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tourism from the mainland: whereas nearly 4.2 million mainland-Chinese tourists visited Taiwan in 2015, when the pro-Beijing Kuomintang government was in power, the total fell to just 2.73 million in 2017.
To avoid the pitfalls of industrial-era US regulatory agencies – which tended to
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innovation with overly prescriptive rules and to side with incumbents or other vested interests – the DDA would be structured for the twenty-first century.
But now, both companies use their dominant positions to
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competition, by controlling which products users see and favoring their own brands (many of which have seemingly independent names).
To
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opinions on campuses by threatening to withhold funds runs counter to the freedom of speech guaranteed by the US Constitution.
But the formula that AWS used to drive innovation in cloud computing could
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it in journalism, because the Post, like most software-selling publishers, is both the product’s chief developer and its biggest customer.
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