https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Cost-and-Quality https://booksandideas.net/Cost-and-Quality 2015-04-20T05:30:00Z text/html en Florian Mayneris Economy labour market investment companies trade Institut français competitiveness <p>The French economy's lack of “competitiveness” is often attributed to high labor costs. Recent research, however, suggests that the export performance of advanced countries has less to do with labor costs than with product quality and the ways businesses invest.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Has-the-Competitiveness-Obsession https://booksandideas.net/Has-the-Competitiveness-Obsession 2014-12-29T09:00:00Z text/html en Ecolinks Economy Europe competition Institut français competitiveness <p>The policies implemented in response to Europe's sovereign debt crisis and serious economic imbalances evoke the concept of “competitiveness.” Yet this concept and the measures it implies are ill-suited to Europe's situation and may worsen its predicament.</p>