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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: Ecocentric Criterion and the Population Question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.202000.26466@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <1992Nov21.022849.24681@ke4zv.uucp> <JMC.92Nov21102224@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov23.171111.491@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:20:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.171111.491@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
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- >workers in the information age. It's Catch 22. If American, European,
- >and Japanese companies can continue to export jobs and job training
- >to these countries, then they have a chance of reaching critical
- >mass and taking off as rich countries. But if restrictive trade
- >policies block this, then they are doomed to poverty and starvation.
-
- This type of trade extracts natures wealth for the long-term gain
- of the investor - otherwise they wouldn't invest. The local
- economy gets jobs, but thats primarily a short-term gain so it
- isn't likely to provide the type of wealth that you and John were
- referring to. The training usually isn't of the type that will
- compete in the world economy, but even if it is, they need some
- mechanism to keep the wealth created within the country -
- something that free trade doesn't do. Trade restrictions will
- slow the investment but permits what development does occur to be
- for the interest of the local people. I don't know whether this
- kind of development will be able (or fast enough) to move these
- countries to low population growth.
- >
- >Gary
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- dingo in boulder (dean@vexcel.com)
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