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Randall 
Jones, 
head 
of 

the Japan/Korea desk at the 
Organisation 
for 
Economic 

Co-operation and Development, 
spoke at the Ford School of 
Public Policy Friday about the 
challenges faced by policymakers 
when negotiating international 
economic agreements.

“When we at the OECD try 

to write policy that will benefit 
each nation, we stay away from 
a 
one-size-fits-all 
approach,” 

Jones said. “If something works 
in Canada, it may not necessarily 
work in Japan. At the same time, 
we do look for best practices. It 
sometimes may be the case that if 
a policy works in one place then it 
may work elsewhere too.”

In his lecture, Jones, who 

earned 
his 
master’s 
degree 

and Ph.D. from the University 
of Michigan in 1982 and 1984 
respectively, spoke about his role 
as a key negotiator and advocate 

for 
international 
free-market 

policies. His lecture focused on 
four key themes: rapidly aging 
demographics 
in 
Korea 
and 

Japan, weak productivity and 
growth since the 2008 financial 
crisis, high wealth inequality and 
relative poverty, and high levels 
of public debt.

Jones focused extensively on 

the issue of aging, specifically 
in Japan, which has the oldest 
population among OECD nations. 
The issue has created a heavy 
public pension burden on the 
working-age population.

“Japan, today, has the highest 

population dependency ratio and 
one of the lowest birth rates.” 
Jones said. “The country wants 
to raise its birthrate towards 
the OECD average. However, 
it is often the case that women 
in Japan will have no children 
because of the of the demands of 
work.”

One remedy Jones noted, aside 

from raising the birthrate in 
Korea and Japan, was to increase 

immigration 
rates 
to 
both 

countries — which is something 
Korea has embraced more than 
Japan in recent decades.

“In Japan, the government 

allows more skilled labor to 
immigrate, which means that 
there is a shortage of laborers, 
but in Korea there is a trainee 
program for unskilled labor that 
lasts for three years,” Jones said.

Along 
with 
immigration, 

Jones also discussed standard of 
living issues, including decrease 
in productivity as well as rising 
inequality and poverty.

In both Japan and Korea, 

Jones said, there is a decreasing 
level of industrial productivity 
and 
a 
low 
emphasis 
on 

entrepreneurship. 
This, 

according to Jones, has led to a 
rise in the number of “zombie 
firms” — corporations that fail 
to turn annual profits.

This growing concern over 

production 
has 
contributed 

to an overall lowering of the 
standard of living in both 
countries, he said, along with 
other factors like an increase 
in non-regular workers with 
temporary contracts in Korea, 
who can be paid significantly 
less 
than 
regular 
workers 

with long-term contracts. A 
glut of college educated adults 
entering the workforce has 
also been a factor.

“Many factories, including 

ones that I have visited in 
Korea, arbitrarily hire people 
on a non-regular basis,” Jones 
recalled. 
“The 
non-regular 

worker in Korea can sometimes 
make half as much as the 
regular worker. What we at 
the OECD want to achieve is 
a greater standardization of 
wages so that the non-regular 
worker would make more and 
the 
regular 
worker 
would 

make slightly less. This would 
decrease the level of wage 
inequality, 
and 
ultimately 

the poverty level among the 
Korean working class.”

A reduction of economic 

inequality, Jones said, was a 
main focus of the efforts of 

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Monday morning in the 

courtyard of the Art and 

Architecture Building, Art 

& Design Prof. Roland Graf’s 

Studio 3-D class completed their 

“Michigan Daily Habitat Project.” 

The goal of the project was to 

build an 11-foot-6-inch geodesic 

dome big enough to fit the entire 

class, using The Michigan Daily 

newspapers as their main supply.

Graf said the class’s goal 

was to start exploring the 

relationship between form, space 

and structure, as well as to learn 

the benefits of resourcefulness, 

precision and team spirit, which he 

said are some of the basic elements 

that will help the students succeed 

throughout the semester. He added 

that he wanted to use the project 

as a type of icebreaker so students 

could get to know each other.

“It helps me to get to know the 

students and for the students to get 

to know each other,” he said.

A geodesic dome is a 

hemispherical, thin-shelled 

structure. The American Institute 

of Architects defines the geodesic 

dome as “the strongest, lightest 

and most efficient means of 

enclosing space known to man.”

It is constructed of short 

struts following geodesic lines and 

forming an open framework of 

triangles or polygons. First created 

for the Zeiss Planetarium in 1922 

in Jena, Germany, the principles 

of its construction were further 

developed and popularized by 

Richard Buckminster Fuller, an 

American architect and engineer.

In constructing the dome, 

the class used 42 copies of The 

Michigan Daily. Each copy equaled 

six 24x21 sheets, with two sheets 

per strut for 250 struts total. 

They also used 91 brass fasteners. 

Graf said he only gave students a 

handout of the objective and they 

took it from there.

“They had to figure out how 

to organize it themselves in task 

forces,” he said. “It was really 

impressive actually. I’m happy 

with how the students took 

initiative.”

The structure overall was 

small, but large enough to fit the 

entire class.

“There are 18 students and 

they all fit in,” Graf said. “One of 

them said the dome is bigger than 

her dorm.”

Graf said overall he thought 

the class learned a lot about 

invisible perceptual forces around 

and between objects.

“It’s a great class,” Graf said. “I 

am glad this little welcome worked 

out so well. I also liked how they 

got their hands on The Michigan 

Daily.”

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Art & Design students let their geodesic dome –constructed out of issues of The Michigan 
Daily – stand freely for the first time in the Slusser gallery at the Arts & Architecture 
Building.

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