We need to think even farther out of the box, because the problem is not a shortage of any of the inputs.



It is instead the lack of buying power created by excessive inequality, which constrains the total amount of goods and services that can be sold. The rich hoard their money, both because it's difficult to spend as much as they have and because the money becomes for them more about status and power than about what it can buy. This is a worldwide problem that needs a better solution than for countries to compete with one another to create trade surpluses at each other's expense.