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Japan Plans To Merge Major Science Bodies
ananyo writes "In its battle against a sluggish economy, Japan's government is gearing up to make cost savings through a root-and-branch reform of the country's science system, merging some of its most prominent research organizations. Plans approved by the government's cabinet would consolidate the RIKEN network of basic-research laboratories with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) — the national funding body. But with few details about the timing, potential cost savings or full implications of the change, many researchers are concerned that it could be a recipe for harsh funding cuts and even greater bureaucracy."
'economic growth' doesn't mean growth as in a cake growing in the oven.
it simply means an improvement in the standard of living of the population. that is ALWAYS possible, and it uses LESS resources to be made possible.
growth %ages applied to 'GDP' are make-believe bullshit that means absolutely jack except to Keynesian loonies who have been wrong from the moment they stepped out of school with their diplomas. that stupid number made this retarded meme that 'growth is limited' possible. a superficial understanding of economics dispels this naive notion.
remember microchips? they used much more resources, cost much more and were slower. telephone cables? they were made of tons of copper, now we use sand and make optic fiber, and in a while, we'll just go full wireless and fuck using ANY resources to link point A to point B. next generation cars will be electric, with batteries that we ALREADY recycle, basically EVERYTHING we do better and cheaper, and I dont just mean price tag cheaper, I mean ACTUAL resources utilized cheaper.
Send your spendthrift head of state this
Your post makes no sense. First you say they need to stop with Keynesian economics, then you go on about stopping them and their ability to print money. Which is a central keynesian ideal. So which is it?
- can you re-read this and try to explain to yourself, how come 2 statements, both of which are true, are contradictory?
Yes, Japan needs to stop Keynesian charlatanism, which means they need to stop government spending and for this they need to stop printing currency. They need market money, not political money, which means in almost every case that they need gold, not paper.
Oddly Japan seems to be doing fine after learning from their housing bubble in the 90's, which the US didn't learn from.
- so you don't know what Japanese zombie banks and zombie corporations are?
And you believe japanese unemployment is a problem? At 4.3%?
- that's nonsense. The real unemployment is over 3 times as high.
Wait, let me guess, you're the same type of person who believes that when it was the same during Bush's term it was disastrous, but during Obama's 10% it was perfectly okay.
- what? What? What the fuck is this nonsense?
I am 100% against Obama. I was 100% against Bush. 100% against Clinton. The last US presidents that actually made sense were Grover Cleveland, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
I don't understand how your post is moderated up, but it's some truly confused moderation on every level.
You can't handle the truth.