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... acentrallyplanned economy,
and perhaps most chillingly, the overthrow of govern-
ments and a“dictatorshipof the proletariat.”In the wake
of the collapse of communism, these ideas ...
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RobertJ.Shapiro,Futurecast:howsuperpowers,populations, and globaliza-
tionwillchange the wayyoulive and work, New York,St.Martin’sPress,
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ThomasL.Friedman, The WorldisFlat:ABriefHistoryof the Twenty
FirstCentury, New York,Farrar,Strause and Giroux,2005,2006.
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China’shighsavingrate the resultofgovernmentpolicy,see:Ea-
monnFingleton,In the Jawsof the Dragon:America’sFatein the Coming
EraofChineseHegemony, New York,St.Martin’sPress,2008.
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PietraRivoli, The TravelsofaT-Shirtin the Global Economy: AnEcono-
mistExamines the Markets,Power and PoliticsofWorldTrade,JohnWiley
and Sons, New York,2005,p40.
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Ibid.p142.
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JeffRubin and BenjaminTal,“WillSoaringTransportCostsRe-
verseGlobalization?,”CIBCWorldMarketsStrategEcon,March27,
2008.Web:
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/pdfs/oil.pdf
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Revenueperemployeenumbers.Source:GoogleFinance,basedon
2008revenue.
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“…growthwithoutjobcreation.”, The Economist,August11,2003.
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Huether,David, The Caseof the MissingJobs,BusinessWeek,April
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8116.htm
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Technicallythismightbebettercalled“regressive”or“reversepro-
gressive”since the deductionishigheratlowerwagelevels.However,
thosewordshavenegativeconnotations…
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FareedZackaria, The FutureofFreedom:IlliberalDemocracyatHome and
Abroad, New York,W.W.Norton&Co.,2003,p.172-173.
Notes ... Marx
The centralthesisofthisbookisthat,as technology acce-
lerates, machine automationmay ultimately penetrate the
economy to the extent thatwages no longer provide the
bulkofconsumerswithadequatediscretionaryincome and
confidencein the future.Ifthisissueisnotaddressed, the
resultwillbeadownwardeconomicspiral.
Itmustbeacknowledgedthatthisideaisquitesimilar
to the predictionsthatweremadebyKarlMarxin the mid
tolate1800s.Marxpredictedthatcapitalismwouldsuffer
from...