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Candidates and the Truth About America - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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dismal statistics on child poverty, declaring it an outrage that of the 35 most economically advanced countries, the United States ranks 34th, edging out only Romania
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educational achievement, noting that this country comes in only 28th in the percentage of 4-year-olds enrolled in preschool
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14th in the percentage of 25-to-34-year-olds with a higher education
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infant mortality, where the United States ranks worse than 48 other countries and territories,
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the United States trails most of Europe, Australia and Canada in social mobility.
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America is indeed No. 1, he might declare — in locking its citizens up, with an incarceration rate far higher than that of the likes of Russia, Cuba, Iran or China
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in obesity, easily outweighing second-place Mexico and with nearly 10 times the rate of Japan
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in energy use per person, with double the consumption of prosperous Germany.
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This national characteristic, often labeled American exceptionalism, may inspire some people and politicians to perform heroically, rising to the level of our self-image
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Democrats are more loath than Republicans to look squarely at the government debt crisis indisputably looming with the aging of baby boomers and the ballooning cost of Medicare
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the self-censorship it produces in politicians is bipartisan, even if it is more pronounced on the left for some issues and the right for others.
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epublicans are more reluctant than Democrats to acknowledge the rise of global temperatures and its causes and consequences.
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An American politician who speaks too candidly about the country’s faults, she went on to say, risks being labeled with that most devastating of epithets: un-American.
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The Republican Ticket Twists the Facts About Health Care - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Romney's new focus: pushing a five-point economic plan - Los Angeles Times - 1 views

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The Social Welfare State, beyond Ideology: Scientific American - 0 views

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Jasper Arasteh on 15 Oct 12

I think that finding a balance between the freedom and social welfare has always been an issue in America and thats why this is such an interesting article. The Nordic countries seem to have a very good balance of free market success and equality. These countries would be good examples for America but there are two reasons that make this difficult. First off, many Americans seem to be deeply afraid of anything resembling socialism or communism. Second all these nordic states are small and relatively homogenous. This makes it much easier for the government to provide social welfare that meets everybody's needs and keeps everyone happy. The US is huge and has a much more diverse population. This makes for a completely different problem. While a social democratic government has worked so well for Scandinavia, we are far from getting to a state like that in the US.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I think that finding a balance between the freedom and social welfare has always been an issue in America and thats why this is such an interesting article. The Nordic countries seem to have a very good balance of free market success and equality. These countries would be good examples for America but there are two reasons that make this difficult. First off, many Americans seem to be deeply afraid of anything resembling socialism or communism. Second all these nordic states are small and relatively homogenous. This makes it much easier for the government to provide social welfare that meets everybody's needs and keeps everyone happy. The US is huge and has a much more diverse population. This makes for a completely different problem. While a social democratic government has worked so well for Scandinavia, we are far from getting to a state like that in the US.</div>

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Jasper Arasteh on 15 Oct 12

Even though I believe a government like that would be ideal for the US, it is not very realistic due to how conservative the US is compared to Scandinavia.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Even though I believe a government like that would be ideal for the US, it is not very realistic due to how conservative the US is compared to Scandinavia.</div>

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Immigration's Role Often Overlooked in Global Economy | FPIF - 0 views

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2012 Presidential Debate Schedule « 2012 Election Central - 1 views

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http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/deardorff.pdf - 0 views

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What Are the U.S. and China's Current Comparative Advantages? | China Global Trade - 0 views

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Comparative advantage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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What happened to Clive Crook? - 0 views

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Beyond Belief - Clive Crook - The Atlantic - 0 views

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name a single proposition in all social science that was both true and nontrivial. It took a while, but Samuelson finally thought of a good answer: the principle of comparative advantage
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The doctrine in question, devised by David Ricardo in 1817, makes a strong claim about the gains that accrue from trade.
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For nearly 200 years, the principle of comparative advantage, and the ideas about economic policy that flowed from it, divided the world into two camps: those with basic economic literacy, and the rest.
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Understanding this idea, and advocating it to the world, was part of what it meant to be an economist—especially an American economist.
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ately things have changed. Some of America’s most eminent economists, including Samuelson himself, have edged away from that earlier consensus.
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The shift is both momentous and disturbing. Just why it happened is a mystery.
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what the principle of comparative advantage does not say.
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trade between two countries will make both better off so long as each is especially good at making something different from the other
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absolute advantage
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there are mutual gains from trade even when one country is better at producing everything. All that matters is that its margin of superior efficiency is greater for some products than for others.
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Clive Crook weighs in on the Globalization debate.

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