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The French Connections
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: July 23, 2007
There was a time when everyone thought that the Europeans and the Japanese
were better at business than we were. In the early 1990s airport bookstores
were full of volumes with samurai warriors on their covers, promising to teach
you the secrets of Japanese business success. Lester Thurows 1992 book, Head
to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America, which
spent more than six months on the Times best-seller list, predicted that Europe
would win.
Then it all changed, and American despondency turned into triumphalism. Partly
this was because the Clinton boom contrasted so sharply with Europes slow
growth and Japans decade-long slump. Above all, however, our new confidence
reflected the rise of the Internet. Jacques Chirac complained that the Internet
was an Anglo-Saxon network, and he had a point France, like most of Europe
except Scandinavia, lagged far behind the U.S. when it came to getting online.
What most Americans probably dont know is that over the last few years the
situation has totally reversed. As the Internet has evolved in particular, as
dial-up has given way to broadband connections using DSL, cable and other
high-speed links its the United States that has fallen behind. . .
Even more striking is the fact that our high speed connections are painfully
slow by other countries standards. . . [H]ealth care isnt the only area in
which the French, who can take a pragmatic approach because they arent
prisoners of free-market ideology, simply do things better.
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