The problem, and this explains your firing, is that your musings reveal a shocking lack of knowledge about how rich and poor economies work, the purpose of currencies, and the role of comparative advantage in lifting all economic boats.

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However, as David Ricardo observed almost 200 years ago, economic optimisation is about comparative advantage.

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By focusing upon comparative advantage nations can maximise their economic potential.

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Worse, it violates arguably the most powerful economic idea ever conceived in comparative advantage.

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Evidence borne in the environment of economic dynamics, not dogmatic comparative statics.

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Building global brands is more competitive and demands more rigorous management than when Japanese and then South Korean companies undertook the challenge at comparative levels of their country's economic development.

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Influenced by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein (historians who helped establish a tradition of global comparative history), large numbers of Japanese intellectuals are beginning to realise that a global economic system existed in the areas around the Indian Ocean, the Arabic Sea, the South China Sea, and the East China Sea long before the westernisation of the world.

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