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- From: louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Idiotic Japan Bashing
- Message-ID: <louis.725650446@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 17:34:06 GMT
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- jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
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- [Summary of Japan's progress towards hegemony deleted]
-
- >Perhaps the Japanese plan consists of advancing the interests of the
- >country using whatever means seems appropriate at the time. If that's
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >it, then every country has the same plan.
-
- You have hit the nail on the head. That indeed is the problem. Japan,
- ruled by the mandarins of the civil service (not to be remotely
- confused with the civil service of the US), has had a consistent
- *national* economic plan. A consensus if you will. ``Keep them out
- until we have achieved the manufacturing excellence which we know we
- are capabale of, then dominate the market.''
-
- I am asking for the same kind of leadership in the North American
- context. Symmetric trade, not free trade on one side and barriers on
- the other. I submit that the US-Canada Auto Pact is that kind of
- ``managed'' trade that has been very good for both countries.
-
- John, I know you have wide interests and an extensive knowledge base.
- Do you have time for a read of two books that I have found very
- interesting and, as near as I can verify, factual? ``Trading Places,''
- by Clyde Prestowitz, 1988, and ``Head to Head,'' by Lester Thurow.
-
-
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- Louis Schmittroth louis@cs.athabascau.ca
- NW 1/4 18 67 21 W4 Alberta.
-