Comparative advantage. A condition or a process?

Historical experience reveals that the economy in our clays does not evolve in line with any imposed projects. Instead, it is shaped by processes triggered by a variety of factors, both external and internal. Only a few of them are controlled by state governments. Contemporary economy rests within a very complex system of international links and ties. Areas of cooperation significant for the operation of enterprises have long ago crossed national borders. We are not witnessing sharply defined national manufacturing systems any longer. The process of integration evolves at pace, leaving less and less room for economic policy applied by the state. However, existing instruments - fiscal, legal and, albeit to a limited degree, monetary - still make it possible to support certain processes which are vital for the economic progress. Their identification and stimulation by the well-reasoned structure of state expenditure is essential because there are no economic systems capable of independently overcoming any deficits. Then, there are also some structural weaknesses, such as an inadequately short time perspective in business activities of enterprises which reduces necessary infrastructural and research & development projects. States which proved unable to develop a rational policy for supporting their economies in those areas, inevitably struggle and end up left behind. Unfortunately, it becomes more and more difficult to create such a policy. There aren't any universal or unambiguous development models to be found in books of the theory of economics - even if some time ago we tended to believe there were. Sued belief resulted, in certain periods, in very common prioritisation of some particular sectors (sued as heavy industry back in the 1950s, electronics in the 1970s and 80s and so on). Any attempt to stick to such an approach today should be defined just a pursuit of illusive objectives at the cost of loss of actual prospects, developed in the long run. The economic policy must be more complex, fundamentally focused on the development of the system rather than its individual elements. It should give support, sure enough, but not to any individual attainments - if anything it should support the creation of an economy profile which fits well within the global economic progress. This seems to be the right way to develop economic and social potential of any country.