In a message dated 8/29/98 2:14:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
G.Houtzagers@inter.nl.net writes:
> I was not aware of the research that Boyd quoted. By the way if we look at
> this in terms of economical growth it cannot be very important with a USA
> economy that is booming and a Japanese that is crashing. besides this we
> have the problem of hidden unemployment in Japan and the, according to me,
> inhuman culture of handcuffing the employees to the company.
Perhaps I'm naive, but I believe this booming US economy and the crashing
Japanese economy are short-term events. I think once the Japanese work
through their "planned economy" to a more capitalistic economy they will
be set to boom again in the long term. I may be wrong and hold their
culture as idealistic. What say others?
Boyd
Greensboro, NC
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