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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Trade Deficit
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:44:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec4.155214.26523@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec4.173514.20660@linus.mitre.org> <1992Dec11.091103.9478@edinboro.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec11.091103.9478@edinboro.edu> s462075d@edinboro.edu writes:
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- >> Per capita, Japan buys MORE than we do.
- >
- >I think its VERY relevant. If their per-capita productivity is so high that
- >they can have a trade surplus as large as they do, per-capita income will
- >increase for them. It shows just how far ahead Japan is in productivity:
- >their per-capita income is about the same as ours, but they produce so much
- >more. They will eventually have a higher living standard.
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- Another well-informed posting. 8-) US productivity is higher
- than Japan's (source OECD).
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- ---peter
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