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Management writer Simon Caulkin says there is still much to admire about Japanese manufacturers, not least their "miraculous" recovery after the Fukushima disaster, and the Toyota production system, which is still is one of the "wonders of the industrial world".

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"Even when Sony knew what Jobs was up to, it couldn't get it together because it was undermined by squabbling divisions, each struggling to protect its empire," explains Caulkin.

Japan's technology giants faced down disaster – but the new enemy is doubt 2012

One criticism, says Caulkin, is that in areas such as consumer electronics and cameras, Japanese companies are so focused on competing with their immediate peers that they miss the big picture.

Japan's technology giants faced down disaster – but the new enemy is doubt 2012

No relation to that figment of my imagination movie starring that Caulkin kid and Michael Jackson.

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Caulkin, whom we met before in this story in the vast spaces of the Arctic, was awarded about this time the King's Police

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He was accompanied by Sergeant-Major Caulkin and four natives with lovely names, Quashak, Bye-and-bye, Joe, and an Eskimo lady named Soloman.

The Royal Mounted Police in the Arctic 1928

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Kings (NBC, 8pm): "The king's nephew (Macauley Caulkin) returns from exile."

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Caulkin refers to the recent article by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud that points to some of the shortcomings of conventional economic thinking, based as it is on unproven (indeed, fallacious) axioms.

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What Caulkin is really saying is that self-interest without restraint or regulation is bad for the economy, especially when it generates the kind of absurd salaries that promote reckless short-termism and erosion of trust (not to mention outright arrogant malpractice).

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