This, at root, is the origin of the recent financial crisis.In increasingly tense international competition, differences in costs, wages and land prices are becoming less important than factors such as human capital, the law, market regulation and the environment.
At the highest levels of competition, differences in the quality of each performance can be extremely small, and obtaining a medal or finishing last can be decided by fractions of a point.
Under the coalition, the patchy egalitarianism of postwar state schooling is giving way to a more traditional philosophy: stricter uniforms and rules, pupils organised into private school-style "houses", more powerful headteachers, more competition and difference between schools.
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy worked so well as a married couple not just because they were known to be an off-screen pair, but because, as Basinger explains, they "generated a sense of incompatibility, competition, class difference and underlying tension".
If there is competition, and difference in replication rates, one competitor will possibly wipe out the other, even if there is no microevolution occurring.
Because competition magnifies differences in competitive ability as described above, this means that the costs of resistance will be highest early in the spread process, and will decline as resistant strains are increasingly likely to be competing with strains with similar competitive abilities.
Once you cut through the competition and differences of opinion laid out in the article, we are still left with pretty good arguments for why arts education is valuable.
But the truth reflects a more complex battle driven by legislative competition, policy differences and the limits of identity politics in a chamber where women's numbers and power are increasing.
In more entry-level FIRST competitions, there is a trend towards higher female than male participation in programming, whereas in the more advanced competitions, the difference reverses (see Fig. 2a).
In our model, competition maintained differences in boldness among individuals.
