Showing posts with label cheap labor theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheap labor theory. Show all posts
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Reasons for US Insourcing

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Mercantilists previously argued that in order for the US to regain competitiveness expressed via investments outsourced to China, the US n...
Monday, October 01, 2012

Currency Manipulation and the Politics of Neo-Mercantilism

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At the local stock market forum, the Stock Market Pilipinas I had been asked to comment about the currency manipulation charges hurled aga...
Thursday, September 06, 2012

World Competitiveness: Philippines Jumps to 65th Place

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The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently released, The Global Competitiveness Report for 2012-2013 which attempts to measure relative compet...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Germany’s Competitive Advantage over Spain: Freer Labor Markets

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When politics is involved, common sense is eschewed. The vicious propaganda against “austerity” aims to paint the government as the only s...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Proximity Based Manufacturing Supply Chains as Trend of the Future?

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The Economist proposes that the current trend in global manufacturing could shift based on the following priorities, other than labor arbitr...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Global Job Markets: Specialized (Value Added) Work Means Higher Pay

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Here is my favourite marketing guru, Seth Godin’s take on cheap labor… (bold emphasis mine) When something is scarce, it's valuabl...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Reductio Ad Absurdum on Wage Disparities, Supply of Labor and Exports

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In trying to demonstrate the importance of the distinction between causation and correlation, my favorite marketing guru Seth Godin asks “D...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Quote of the Day: The Future of Labor

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Here is a great post labor day quote from marketing guru Seth Godin, In a world where labor does exactly what it's told to do, it ...
Saturday, July 03, 2010

Cheap Labor Theory And Economic Growth: Philippine Edition

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If we go by the mainstream's view of how trade competitiveness is achieved or how unemployment can be resolved, they'll reason out t...