A policy locking people into jobs that could be better done elsewhere is self-defeating.The same goes for protectionism especially now that the victims of globalisation are so scattered throughout the rich world, not camped in embattled industries.
So, the neoliberals have it backwards: it is the neoliberal macroeconomic policies, locked in with the euro, that are the source of both its recession and continuing troubles.
The question is whether Apple's policies lock rivals out of fast-growing new markets.
The industry, they claim, is helpless in the face of wrong-headed policies "locking up" domestic energy resources.
Similarly, patent and copyright policy lock off large areas of the economy in monopolies assigned to large corporations and wealthy individuals.
British policy was locked into a military/security strategy and a policy of criminalisation, and the conflict was dug in and vicious.
If the government loses the case, lawyers said, it would most likely have to end the policy of locked doors at Oakington.
Landrieu, a longtime critic of Obama's energy policy, is locked in a tight re-election battle against the Republican congressman Bill Cassidy, which will be resolved in a runoff on 6 December, after neither managed to gain the 50% required for an outright victory in the midterms last week.
