COMPETITIVENESS - A DANGEROUS OBSESSION
COMPETITIVENESS - A DANGEROUS OBSESSION
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DOI：
10.2307/20045917
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发表时间：
1994-03-01
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7.5
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KRUGMAN, P
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作者：
KRUGMAN, P
国家像大公司一样相互竞争的观点在西方精英中很普遍——其中许多人在克林顿政府中。然而，从实际情况来看，“竞争力”学说是完全错误的。世界主要国家之间在任何重要程度上都没有进行经济竞争。它们的主要经济困境也不能归因于在世界市场上的“失败”。对于美国来说尤其如此。然而，克林顿的竞争力理论家——从劳拉·德安德里亚·泰森（Laura D'Andrea Tyson）到罗伯特·赖克（Robert Reich）再到艾拉·马加齐纳（Ira Magaziner）——提出了看似复杂的论点，其中大部分都得到了粗心算术和草率研究的支持。竞争力是一个诱人的想法，它承诺为复杂问题提供简单的答案。但这种痴迷的结果是资源配置不当、贸易摩擦和糟糕的国内经济政策。
The view that nations compete against each other like big corporations has become pervasive among Western elites-many of whom are in the Clinton administration. As a practical matter, however, the doctrine of ''competitiveness'' is flatly wrong. The world's leading nations are not, to any important degree, in economic competition with each other. Nor can their major economic woes be attributed to ''losing'' on world markets. This is particularly true in the case of the United States. Yet Clinton's theorists of competitiveness-from Laura D'Andrea Tyson to Robert Reich to Ira Magaziner-make seemingly sophisticated arguments, most of which are supported by careless arithmetic and sloppy research. Competitiveness is a seductive idea, promising easy answers to complex problems. But the result of this obsession is misallocated resources, trade frictions and bad domestic economic policies.