发达经济体需要对公共品进行足够的持续投资,这应该是不言自明的。但美国的基础设施状况表明许多决策者并不同意这一观点。美国土木工程师协会(American Society of Civil Engineers)的一份2013年报告给美国基础设施的总体评分是D+。该报告列举了大量各州的不足,包括密歇根州的“88座高危大坝和1,298座存在结构缺陷的挑梁”、加州“需要445亿美元升级饮用水系统”等。
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Rather than reducing concentrated market power through “disruption” or “creative destruction,” technological innovation historically has only added to the problem, by awarding monopolies to just one or a few dominant firms. And market forces offer no remedy to the problem; only public policy can provide that.
shows that technological change leads not to disruption, but to deeper, more enduring forms of market power.
The passing of America’s preeminent foreign-policy thinker and practitioner marks the end of an era. Throughout his long and extraordinarily influential career, Henry Kissinger built a legacy that Americans would be wise to heed in this new era of great-power politics and global disarray.
reviews the life and career of America’s preeminent foreign-policy scholar-practitioner.
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纽约—上个月,加州一座大型高速公路桥梁垮塌,该事件对整个美西南地区造成的影响凸显出美国严重的基础设施问题。事实上,从某种程度上说,世界最大经济体正在落后。
在思想上厌恶公共部门投资,加上预算制定者长期以来的短视思维,导致公路、机场、铁路、通讯网络和发电方面的投资远低于需要的水平。而如今,这一问题已不容继续忽视。如果美国不迅速行动起来,为其脆弱的经济复苏提供坚实的现代基础设施,就会慢慢退回停滞。
发达经济体需要对公共品进行足够的持续投资,这应该是不言自明的。但美国的基础设施状况表明许多决策者并不同意这一观点。美国土木工程师协会(American Society of Civil Engineers)的一份2013年报告给美国基础设施的总体评分是D+。该报告列举了大量各州的不足,包括密歇根州的“88座高危大坝和1,298座存在结构缺陷的挑梁”、加州“需要445亿美元升级饮用水系统”等。
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