What makes America products competitive in Paul Krugman’s view?
…………………………………………Leechard
(Quest No.8249e 2011/10/05)
In my view, America products are competitive in their advanced culture. The American has been leading the way for the last two hundred years. They have the most advanced airplanes, space ships, computers, mobile phones, etc. These kinds of products are very competitive. Apple had opened two new stores in Hong Kong and Shanghai last week. They proved people like American products; people are willing to pay more for them; not a little more, but a lot more. People queue over night for new products coming from America.
Why the American people could have a better technology, while the others could not? Even the Europeans like the Nokia, or the Asians like the Sam Sung can hardly complete with them. Why?
In my view, this remains a culture secret.
An apple tree grew in the soils of America, if removed else where, like Japan or Korea or China, will never has the same good apples on the tree. The tree is but the tool of the soil. The apple is from the soil. The iphone 5 is from the soil. And the soil is the western culture itself. And the culture is in the minds of every American. Or we can say the iphone 5 is from Benjamin Franklin, from Abraham Lincoln, from Thomas Edison, from Martin Luther King, from John Lennon and etc.
The Japanese, the Korean, the Chinese all bought trees from America. They hired American scientists and engineers, but can they produce the same good apples? Obviously not. They can buy the tree, but they can never buy the soil. If hot competition is coming in the future, people should watch out for products from the other soil, not products from the relocated trees.
And more of the America competitive power is hidden, for they have not put all their products to the market. You can never buy a stealth plane, or other higher secret military product from the market. That means, the Americans have not shown all their might in competitiveness.
Competitive power is from the inner core of the culture itself, not from a lower price.
Now, from the Global edition of the New York Times yesterday (2011.10.4.), we saw comments from Paul Krugman. He said, “…we need to make American product more competitive, which in practice means that we need the dollar’s value to fall in terms of other currencies….”
May be he needs to reconsider the real inner power of the competitiveness of the American culture.
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You are right. America has the soil for innovation culture to take root. But the fact that American products (Hollywood films, fast food, etc) are more easily to be "marketed" may also be the key behind their success.
回覆刪除Still, I like Europe better,I'm especially impressed by their environmental efforts. To me, Europe also has the soil for innovation. But I think the Europeans see things with a longer-run perspective. They are more responsible world citizens. They may not have the soil to grow the American apples but I don't really care...
I may be too naive as I have hopes that the Europeans can lead the world out of the woods. (but for sure I know both the US and EU policymakers have to handle the current debt crisis first..)
China, despite all the astonishing growth figures, still disappoints me..
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