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DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS, (by Prof. C.M. Christensen) for RESTORING OUR ECONOMY
----------- To: LARRY SUMMERS (Director of NEC) --- From: HARRY WINTER(S) -------------
Working for years on my paper “EE-Logos.org”, I could only imagined our future to be a
I will explain, but first, let me say what I see as the real cause of our economic crises. Sure, the blown Housing-bubble and the failed Government-Banking-oversight have caused serious problems, but these all have well known and proven solutions. The FATAL problem for the U.S. economy is simply that wages for workers and engineers are ten times higher than those of other countries. We cannot manufactured “trade-goods” that are affordable to the rest of the World. Instead, we have a Huge Trade Deficit of $750 Billion and factories are closing at an alarming rate. Soon,
The $787 Billion STIMULUS-program does not address the above problem at all; it stimulates only the local economy weakly in an undifferentiated way. --- This program is obviously not the “right kind of plan” Larry; because it is based on a WRONG DIAGNOSIS, assuming we are only dealing with a cyclic recession. As Business Professor Peter Morici, of the University of Maryland, explains it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF0Pv4d38UI&feature=related “A DEPRESSION is a recession that DOES NOT SELF-CORRECT , because of fundamental structural problems in the economy, such as
We have BOTH SYMPTONS,
How can our Business Professors believe in a
Author Iain Banks observed this years ago, when he wrote:
”It is in the elevation of this profoundly mechanistic (and in that sense perversely innocent) [capitalistic] system to a position above all other moral, philosophical and political values and considerations that humankind displays most convincingly both its present intellectual immaturity and - through grossly pursued selfishness (rather than the applied hatred of others) a kind of synthetic evil.”
For a time I was baffled when none of the “Stimulus money” was ever directed towards the
Curious? http://www.msmisp.com/futuretest/index.htm