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Eamonn Fingleton
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Eamonn Fingleton writes Sandcastle Empire, a personal blog at fingleton.net about economics and politics. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Eamonn Fingleton's essays on Japan's economy and manufacturing, including the lost-decade argument and outsourcing at Boeing and Apple. Commenters mostly cite them as sources, and one disputes them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Both articles are actually by the same author. His blog is at http://www.fingleton.net/
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on “The myth of Japan's failure”The "overall picture is bleak" if you measure societies by flashy, marketable headline developments and gadgets. It is rather good if you more soberly consider household incomes and trade figures. Japan continues to dominate many high tech industries. Look at the 787; over a third of it is made in Japan and it's all the key hi tech bits like the carbon fiber wings. Japan may indeed be in some sort of withdrawn middl…
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on “Japan: We're losing to Apple, and here's why”I would really like to hear the reaction of patio11 and any other HN participant who lives in Japan to this story. The author of the submitted article links to his one blog in the article, and there he has an open letter to Clinton administration government official http://www.fingleton.net/an-open-letter-to-professor-edward-... with more details of his basis for saying that Japan's economy has been growing steadily…
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on “The Myth of Japan's lost Decade”To keep the design expertise in-house. Or as aptly put in this piece: > He had subsequently watched its commercial aircraft business outsource itself to death. A key problem was that designers became so out of touch that they no longer understood basic manufacturing realities. http://www.fingleton.net/boeing-goes-to-pieces/
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on “What would it cost Apple to make iPhones in the U.S.?”