First, there may be an entrepreneurial spirit increasingly abroad in Sweden and its cultural industries that has led to a wave of start-ups. |
Labour-intensive export industries such as clothing and textiles, which have been limited by export quotas, will absorb most of the new jobs. |
You will probably be smoked out of your position, for a cheap and nasty variety of brown coal is used by local industries. |
However, as David Ricardo famously demonstrated, specialization and trade can benefit even a country that has an absolute advantage in all industries. |
Now the other extreme has the artifact versus the naturifact and the talk of culture in such loose terms as preblade industries. |
Creative ingenuity gone, the arts and industries would decay, sky-scrapers would crumble, plantations would be weedgrown, as they are in Haiti. |