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As I have shown elsewhere, the condition that supply and demand are independently given cannot be reconciled with reality, at least as far as the financial markets are concerned--and financial markets play a crucial role in the allocation of resources.
The shape of the supply and demand curves cannot be taken as given because both of them incorporate expectations about events that are shaped by those expectations.
If the supply and demand curves are not independently given, how are market prices determined?
But in financial markets prices are not merely the passive reflection of independently given demand and supply; they also play an active role in shaping those preferences and opportunities.
SOCIAL DARWINISMBy taking the conditions of supply and demand as given and declaring government intervention the ultimate evil, laissez-faire ideology has effectively condemned income or wealth redistribution.
Policymakers should recast agriculture in the new environment of globalization, supply chains, and growing domestic demand.
At home, it recently unveiled a mammoth new $635 billion investment program in water infrastructure over the next decade, more than a third of which will be channeled into building dams, reservoirs, and other supply structures.
Yes, trade with China is the largest component of this imbalance, but that largely reflects the complexity of multinational supply chains and the benefits of offshore efficiency solutions.
Similarly, Twiga Foods in Kenya is using technology to optimize its supply chain by matching rural fruit and vegetable growers with small- and medium-size vendors in Nairobi.
Developing new antibiotics and putting in place methods to extend the lifespans of existing medications will help maintain a supply of effective treatments.
Senior Indian executives whose businesses require them to recruit competent scientists or engineers complain that demand for such talent vastly exceeds the supply.
First, macroeconomic management must ensure that demand always grows as strongly as the supply potential created by technology and globalization.
The ETC’s analysis shows that India could increase its total electricity supply from today’s 1,100 TW hours to 2,500 by the 2030s, with continued rapid growth thereafter, while never building any more coal-fired power stations beyond those already under construction, and without suffering a growth penalty.
As a practical matter, efforts to verify, secure, and eventually destroy Syria’s huge supply of chemical weapons cannot be implemented without at least a lasting ceasefire.
Technological innovations are not only reducing the number of routine jobs, but also causing changes in global supply chains and networks that result in the relocation of routine jobs – and, increasingly, non-routine jobs at multiple skill levels – in the tradable sector of many economies.
Growth in high-end services employment is matched by contraction in high-employment components of manufacturing supply chains.
The same class of information technologies that automate, disintermediate, and reduce the costs of remoteness are also enabling the construction of increasingly complex and geographically diverse global supply chains and networks.
Global supply chains – constantly in flux, owing to rising developing-country incomes and shifting comparative advantage – locate productive activities where human and other resources make those activities competitive.
The result is what is sometimes called the “atomization” of global supply chains: increasingly fine subdivisions are feasible, more efficient, and locatable almost anywhere.
The efficient ongoing decomposition of global supply chains, networks, and services has two related consequences.
Second, parts of global supply chains that were not competitive are no longer protected by being adjacent to parts that were.
Across-the-board upgrading of human capital will improve income distribution both directly and indirectly (by reducing the supply of lower-skill workers relative to demand).
The time has come to supply the rebels with what they desperately need: anti-tank and surface-to-air missiles.
Now the World Food Program fears that another famine is looming – the country’s agricultural output will likely fall to 1.8 million tons of grain, far short of the 4.8 million tons needed to supply the meagre ration of 7ounces a day (half the daily allowance for those in UN refugee camps) ordinary North Koreans receive.
Imbalances between supply and demand have also fueled income inequality, by increasing the wage premia that those with the right skills can command.
Making up for a 5% shortfall in supply is manageable, but the situation will change dramatically as the UK increases its reliance on wind power to reach the 31% target by 2020.
The price of oil at any time depends on market participants’ expectations about future supply and demand.
In the market for fresh vegetables, for example, prices must balance the supply and demand for the current harvest.
By contrast, oil producers and others in the industry can keep supply off the market if they think that its price will rise later, or they can put extra supply on the market if they think the price will fall.
Oil companies around the world keep supply off the market by reducing the amount of oil that they take out of the ground.
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