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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: American movies abroad [was Re: International Language.
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 20:42:03 GMT
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In article <1995Jan14.183417.5937@midway.uchicago.edu>,
Daniel von Brighoff <deb5@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>In article <D2D07J.4sD@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>>It seems only appropriate for French authorities to show some gall...
>
>Ow!  Jack Lang will hunt you down like the dog you are for that pun!

Hmm, might we call the rhetorical invocation of Jack Lang "Jackuse"?

>>A resigned acceptance of the decline of a national industry is a bit
>>easier when it's somebody else's problem, isn't it?  
>
>If the industry is declining because of competition from abroad, then
>this reveals a weakness in it that should be corrected from within,
>not through government controlls.
>
>>What possible reason
>>is there, even on mere economic grounds, for the French government to sit 
>>still and allow an important industry to go down the drain?  
>
>Efficient use of resources.  Why isn't the money being spent on bolstering
>other industries in which France can better compete instead of being
>wasted on protectionism, which any economist will tell you backfires in
>the long run?  

But culture *is* one of the industries in which France can and does compete.
And protectionism is not the only alternative to laissez-faire marketism; ask 
MITI.  But this discussion belongs, if anywhere, somewhere besides sci.lang.
