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- From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
- Subject: Re: America doesn't have a clue: (was DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!)
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- References: <1992Dec18.205739.11193@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <thomasd.42.724959481@tps.COM> <1992Dec21.215358.4886@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:23:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.215358.4886@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- >
- >Thomas Day is correct in pointing out, in effect, that free trade is not
- >an ethical or moral principle, but is an economic principle we have
- >been taught, based on some fundamental assumptions.
- >
- >Those assumptions are basically those of symmetry--each country does what
- >it does best, and exports that to the others. Without those assumptions,
- >free trade breaks down and is without merit.
- >
- >The Japanese massively and deliberately violate those assumptions, for
- >their own advantage. They do so in the import, capital investment,
- >patent, public bidding, ownership, and distribution areas. The facts
- >are massively and incontrovertibly documented.
-
- Then you should have only the SLIGHTEST difficulty in pointing them out. I'll
- point out some sources; Peter Druckers books of the past 25 years on management
- (he was pointing out the dangers to the US in the 50s!), who couned the term
- "adversarial trade", which is the term you're groping for.
-
- >Thus the free trade model cannot be used with Japan. Instead a
- >mercantilist model must be used, hence the arguments for protectionism,
- >symmetrical barriers with respect to Japan, etc. until they sign on
- >to the assumptions of free trade principles.
-
- Yes, we must protect our auto industry. After all, how can we continue to
- produce autos of the caliber of the 70s Pinto, Mustang II (ugh), Camaro, etc,
- unless our manufacturers are protected from quality competition? No doubt,
- you'd prefer to have a TV with vacuum tubes.
-
- >Everything else is noise and self-serving propaganda by the Japanese
- >and their apologists.
-
- This last is SHEER brilliance. With one grand "I don't want to hear it" state-
- ment, this guy labels everything that disagrees with what he "thinks" as
- "propagands'. Must have taken a PR course from the communists.
-
- Mike
- --
- Disclaimer - Oh come on! You didn't think I was serious, did you?
-