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"Heasman, David" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:<[log in to unmask]>...
> I have an awful program to code, dreadful spec and lots of ambiguity and
> complication in the processing, so let's have a look at this : -
>
> > Most of what's happening now was predicted by Sir James Goldsmith in
> 1994:
>
>
> > Goldsmith: A leading theoretician of free trade was David Ricardo,
> > the early-19th century British economist. He developed two
> > interrelated concepts: specialization and comparative advantage.
> > According to Ricardo, each nation should specialize in those
> > activities in which it can have a comparative advantage relative to
> > other countries. Thus, a nation should narrow its focus of activity,
> > abandoning certain industries and developing those in which it has a
> > comparative advantage. The results would be that international trade
> > would grow as nations export their surpluses and import those products
> > that they no longer manufacture, efficiency and productivity would
> > increase and prosperity would be enhanced. But these ideas are not
> > valid in today's world.
>
>
> They weren't valid in Ricardo's world, either. All through the 19th century
>
> the developed nations were importing almost exactly the same goods they
> were exporting.
> They're still doing it now. And in those days the cheap competitor to
> manual labour paid at "developed nation" rates was automation.
> Still is, isn't it? It's odd that there's more noise made over a foreigner
> "stealing jobs" than over a machine doing the same.
>
> Peter Drucker maintains that the great advances in wealth occur when
> there's a big labour
> upheaval. Mechanisation of farming in the 19th century made labour
> available for factory
> work. Big-factory automation since the 30s has released labour to take a
> chance on working for the
> small companies that create all the jobs and eventually the wealth these
> days.
>
> Ricardo these days is most remembered for his vision of a perfect labour
> market where there
> would always be surplus labour and that workers would compete by
> undercutting
> wages, and thus remaining just at the survival level, or perhaps a bit
> below it...
>
>
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