more on OECD on employment protective laws

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Frode Hegland <frode () hegland com>
Date: April 17, 2006 11:47:03 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] OECD on employment protective laws

On 11 Apr 2006, at 19:35, David Farber wrote:
> > Russ Nelson writes: Globalization is nothing new ... and during  
> > that time wages have risen, not fallen

Though of course not uniformly. Some place win (like the British  
Empire being efficient enough to make cloth that they could ship them  
back to India and pretty much eradicate the local industry. (This  
made the British India Company more powerful than the British Empire  
for a while! Yes, even the British Empire was an international  
corporate affair, as much as a government expansion). This of course  
happens often, to degrees. And it swings back and forth between  
regions on the rise, and regions on a plateu.

But when the winners become monopolistic, this breaks down.

Within a capitalistic country regulation is need to keep large  
companies from becoming monopolies. There is no such regulation on a  
world-wide basis, only the WTO which is a representative of the  
monopolistic countries, not of all countries.

One example of this is the monopolistic trade barriers the US and  
Europe have against Africa, which removes five times the amount of  
potential trade income than Africa receives in aid (please help me if  
you can remember who pointed this out, I cannot find the name right  
now, but it was not a hippe, it was someone from the World Bank, I  
think).

In fact, the trade imbalance with Africa is so bad that locally grown  
produce is more expensive in many places, than US imports due to US  
subsidies.

Please, this is my current understanding, if anyone would like to  
correct any of this, please do, my position is just that you can't  
have a purely capitalist system without some regulation to keep  
monopolies from happening so globalization, in its current form is  
not as much capitalism run far, than good old fashioned monopolies.

Hey we could call it cross-border fascism maybe? BTW, I am a firm  
internationalist, so pro-globalization arguments I agree with in  
general, let's just discuss how to improve the outcome for more  
people, instead of simple pro/con arguments. End rant.


Frode Hegland
ceo
The Hyperwords Company
www.hyperwords.net

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