Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession
@article{Krugman1994CompetitivenessAD, title={Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession}, author={P. Krugman}, journal={Foreign Affairs}, year={1994}, volume={73}, pages={28} }
IN J U N E 1993, Jacques Delors made a special presentation to the leaders of the nations of the European Community, meeting in Copenhagen, on the growing problem of European unemployment. Economists who study the European situation were curious to see what Delors, president of the EC Commission, would say. Most of them share more or less the same diagnosis of the European problem: the taxes and regulations imposed by Europe's elaborate welfare states have made employers reluctant to create new… Expand
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