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While the state is involved in much economic activity and property rights are frequently contested, private property is nevertheless firmly established.
There is no job, no profession, civic activity that will not profit from this kind of education.
The good is a capable state: a bureaucracy that can protect the country and its people, keep the peace, enforce rules and contracts, provide infrastructure and social services, regulate economic activity, credibly enter into inter-temporal obligations, and tax society to pay for it all.
As in any other surgical field, the less the procedure interferes with the body, the less likely it is to affect the patient’s quality of life adversely, and the sooner the patient will be able to return to normal activity.
But past experience and the reasons spelled out here suggest that these policies will do very little to increase real activity and price inflation in the eurozone.
It is quite right to argue that governments should aim only to balance their budgets over the business cycle, running surpluses during booms and deficits when economic activity is weak.
The implications of all of this activity, which Clinton calls “twenty-first-century statecraft,” are profound.
There is considerable transnational movement of goods and services, and billions of dollars of cross-border investment, across the Gulf – economic activity that would be endangered by the GCC’s further disintegration.
By the end of the 1970s, growth began to slow in many of the developed Western economies, and US President Ronald Reagan and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan ushered in a debt cycle that supercharged activity.
But policymakers don’t like to see growth slow, and central bankers exhausted their toolkits in an attempt to stimulate economic activity despite insufficient demand.
Some countries (for example, Greece and Portugal) relied on debt-financed government spending to fuel economy activity.
He (rarely she) encourages people to dream – and also to take risks, persist in the face of long odds, and generate economic activity.
Republicans, partly out of sensitivity to this threat, advocate a territorial tax system, like that used in most countries: taxes should be imposed on economic activity only in the country where it occurs.
I must emphasize that this process of asset-price declines and the resulting contraction of economic activity is a risk, not a prediction.
It is possible that asset prices will come down gradually, implying a slowdown rather than a collapse of spending and economic activity.
All of this military activity costs hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
Last week, France began to carry out plans to expel all non-French Roma, implicating them as a group in criminal activity, without any legal process to determine whether individuals have committed any crime or pose a threat to public order.
Stopping criminal activity is a legitimate government concern.
But the expulsion of EU citizens on the basis of ethnicity as a proxy for criminal activity is a violation of EU directives on racial discrimination and the right to move freely from one EU member-state to another.
Trade as a share of its total economic activity has halved in the past decade, from more than 60% of GDP in 2007 to just over 30% today.
More than half of French naval forces were deployed during the Libyan crisis, during which their normal activity rate increased by 10-40% – at a cost of €40 million ($50 million), not to mention disruptions of standard training and maintenance.
This explains the almost continuous stream of measures that emanate from Beijing these days: increased public spending, monetary easing, pressure on state enterprises to expand activity, subsidies to exporters, partial convertibility of the remninbi to spur trade with neighboring countries, and so on.
The central bank’s new focus on inflation is unlikely to help matters, either, because it will undermine economic activity and exacerbate the pain experienced by the most vulnerable, for whom unemployment may be worse than rising prices.
In the run-up to this year’s legislative elections, Macri’s government could try to stimulate economic activity by taking on more debt.
But it can do so only in the context of a sustainable and inclusive recovery of economic activity – and that requires a more competitive economy.
Consider the vast investment and entrepreneurial activity that China has elicited through a hybrid system of property rights and a legal regime that is as far as imaginable from the Anglo-American system.
In Britain, over-dependence on financial services reflects the view that finance is the central coordinating activity of economic life, which made more sense in the nineteenth century than it does today.
Likewise, shipments of toilet paper are amazingly accurate indicators of military activity.
Rather, they indicate that there are obstacles impeding economic activity.
Moreover, it is fanciful to think that a trade deficit – which is merely a reflection of saving and investment activity both inside and outside the country – can be suppressed with protectionist policies.
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