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Bugün birçok ülke bağımsız görünebilir ancak ekonomileri başkalarının kontrolü altındadır. Gerçek kalkınma, yalnızca üretmek değil, üretimi kendi kontrolüne almak demektir. Bugün gelişmiş olan ülkeler, zamanında kendi ekonomilerinde korumacı(protectionist) olmalarına rağmen şu anda diğer ülkelere serbest ticaret(free trade) baskısı yapmaya devam etmektedir.

As the intertwined story of the two noodle-obsessed nations, Korea and Italy,
shows, in the modern economy, entrepreneurship is not an individual deed any
more. It is a collective endeavour.

He’s been the world’s most successful and influential car designer of the last half a century.
Judging from what he says about it, Giugiaro is taking the Marille debacle as an amusing interlude in his stupendous career. In a 1991 interview, he said: ‘I owe my popular fame to that pasta, I got even published in Newsweek, isn’t it funny?’

Giugiaro literally ‘engineered’ a beautiful, futuristic pasta shape, made up of
a tube combined with a wave. The shape was called Marille and was launched
with a fanfare in 1983. Unfortunately, it was a total failure. The production run
was limited, and the distribution poor, so it was difficult to get hold of. More
importantly, the complex shape made it difficult to cook evenly. +

Without infant industry protection, all those countries that were once
economic shrimps – like Britain in the eighteenth century, the US, Germany, and Sweden in the nineteenth century or Japan, Finland and Korea in the twentieth century – would not have been able to turn themselves into the big fish of today’s world economy.