Japan is, moreover, a recognisably capitalist country with a wealth of world-class companies.

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The first derives from what was once a basic New Labour insight: that, beneath the current bitterness, Britain is a more aspirational, capitalist country than old Labour gave it credit for.

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It has a capable CEO, Scott Kriens, and a superb board of directors, including Vinod Khosla, a founder of Sun and probably the country's top venture capitalist.

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The capitalist enclaves would reach so deeply into the country's pool of labour that the remaining supply of farmers, traders, dockworkers and bag-carriers would fall short of demand.

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Indeed, leading venture capitalist John Doerr used to travel around the country hammering home the three top things that the government needed to do to catalyze a clean energy revolution.

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