2. ... If this is so, then the key to renewed profitability may not be the elimination of high cost enterprises but whole uncompetitive branches of
mfg--leading to a structural transformation of the industrial landscape.
Would this lend itself to a Green critique of current consumerist economies? These "uncompetitive branches of mfg" being the mfg plants that produce gizmos and cosumer items not required for daily life? Yet, isn't it just these latter items that are supposed to be the staple of the capitalist/conusmer ethic; e.g., billions of Chinese smoking Marlboros and blowing chewing gum?
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