The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
WINNERS AND^475 ducers are more important than consumers. Anyone can buy, but not everyone can make. If people spend less now, t ...
(^476) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS been so mobile. In the 1980s, foreign direct investment (FDI) by in dustrial nations w ...
WINNERS AND^477 market barriers and feelings, immaterial and personal, also matter. Thus American outsourcers found Korean partn ...
(^478) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS developed along ethnic lines. Thus Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singa pore are launching pla ...
WINNERS AND^479 ready past.^11 Japan's strength and weakness—both—are its sense of national distinctiveness and superiority. Thi ...
(^480) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS the day; the air was unbreathable. Today, half the traffic cops in the city are sufferi ...
WINNERS AND^481 tastemaker and style leader, mass producer of vessels of freedom and love.* The number of registered motor vehic ...
(^482) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS But could they? A decade later, when private enterprise had not yet shown interest, som ...
WINNERS AND^483 and equipment were exempted from duty.^16 (Later on [1960s], the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade would fo ...
(^484) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS to profits.^18 For them, this Japanese ascent was lèse-majesté on a global scale. How d ...
WINNERS AND^485 to twenty-four hours in an American plant.^22 This strategy had profound implications for labor-management relat ...
(^486) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS they knew, wanted big cars you could love and make love in. When someone at Chrysler de ...
WINNERS AND^487 line, moreover, is trained to do a range of tasks, and an interruption is not an opportunity to rest but rather ...
(^488) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS the bosses have their aims; the workers, theirs; the shareholders, theirs. And while al ...
WINNERS AND^489 negatives left by generations of combat by the United Auto Workers. On the other hand, some of the contrasts bet ...
(^490) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS japonaise and holding their wage bill down. To keep inventories lean, they are demandin ...
28. Losers S trung out behind the leaders and followers—in the sense of those who are keeping pace or catching up—are most of th ...
(^492) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS growers sought to upgrade their raw cotton and weavers looked for ways to make high-qua ...
LOSERS^493 preneurially needy. This pattern of arrested development reflects the tenacious resistance of old ways and vested int ...
(^494) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS official international lenders (World Bank, IMF) and from private com mercial banks, a ...
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