It is doubtful whether Iran's leaders can achieve all their stated aims of maintaining petrol production, manufacturing lots of petrochemicals and cleaning the foul air their citizens must breathe.

ECONOMIST: Iran's struggle

Such competition must be curbed with restrictions on labour migration from eastern Europe, subsidies for rich-country production and lots of harmonisation including that old dream of the left, a European minimum wage.

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That means that oil firms have to find lots of new fields just to keep production at today's levels.

ECONOMIST: Face value

This results in low production levels of individual dye lots and associated higher unit costs.

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Lots of future enthusiasm and some interesting shout-outs to Marx (the means of production are in the hands of the creative proletariat), calls to kill off bureaucracy, and optimism that the way we think about leaders, bosses, governments and centralized, top-heavy organizations more broadly is changing for the better.

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Lots of need to move innovations through design, product development, marketing, derivative designs, prototype production, design for manufacturing, short-run specialty items and even prolific variation creation.

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