“To make a harsh but not entirely unjustified analogy, a government wedded to the ideology of competitiveness is as unlikely to make good economic policy as a government committed to creationism is to make good science policy, even in areas that have no direct relationship to the theory of evolution.”

—  Paul Krugman

Pop Internationalism (1996), Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession (1994)

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