Isabella Weber

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Odd Lots · Lots More With Isabella Weber on Draghi's EU Competitiveness Report · 13 Sep 2024 podcast

We're I don't know, one town that only does bottoms for shirts.

Um and is the most important supplier for shirt buttons in the whole world.

There's

Exactly.

And each of these um companies has like zero leave.

This is actually kind of your ideal of perfect competition as you see it in in the textbooks.

Yeah.

It could become some sort of a Disney park for Chinese and American tourists.

Is that what you're envisioning with intellectuals working around?

I mean food is great, culture is great, city life is great, yeah, many things in there.

I would like to kind of add maybe one more thought to your question on the

Cohesion and competitiveness and so on.

I think that in this whole debate around external competitiveness and like kind of re-shoring, Frenchhoring, and so on, there has been a tendency to think like when stuff is national, it will be kind of good for everybody in that country.

Which is to me a little bit similar to the debate around globalization in the 1990s, where it was like kind of the exact same thing, but

Turn on its head where it was like, Oh, as long as we globalize and we produce in the most efficient places and everything is free trade.

It will be so wonderful and there will be welfare gains for everybody.

Expanding the pie is what

Exactly.

Now it's a kind of no longer about expanding the pie globally, it's about expanding the national pie.

And then there's an assumption that this will be great for everybody.

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