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In this area, as in many others, Europe can lead by example and offer an alternative to American (and French) constitutional separationism.
The alternative option can be observed in Zimbabwe.
Over time – but this could take years – consumers could invest in alternative energy sources and reduce demand for fossil fuels via carbon taxes and new technologies.
According to this view, those who favor austerity must be obsessed with the theory, given the availability of a kinder, gentler alternative.
His companions, however, remain unconvinced and seem resigned to failing to find an alternative to the neo-liberal taxation model for paying the foreign debt.
The World Social Forum, which met this year in Bombay, India, is another useful body that is generating alternative proposals to overcome the dire situation of the heavily indebted countries.
The alternative to dismantling the EU is to strengthen it – to pool the debt and create a European treasury.
But, while none of these powers represents a serious alternative to America’s global role, the US will no longer be able to act unilaterally, as it did after the Cold War’s end, and it will be weakened substantially.
These efforts are mirrored by Chinese initiatives in such fields as new low-energy vehicles; light-emitting diode (LED) lighting; building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV); innovative energy efficiency technologies; and various alternative energy sources such as solar, wind, bio-gas, and synthetic fuels.
There is no possible alternative.
Others argued that such a tax fails to target the underlying incentive problems in financial markets, as if we had an effective, well-proven alternative to achieve that end.
It had the alternative of drawing on its dollar reserves or borrowing dollars from abroad to finance the deficit.
But the more people who don’t accept the fascist alternative are mobilized politically, the smaller the threat will be.
According to this view, the alternative – not having an efficient market system operating in a relatively open global economy – would be far worse.
If market-driven recapitalization is too slow, and closing failing institutions is impossible, a more extreme alternative is to inject public capital directly into the banks (rather than indirectly, as now, by propping up the value of the sovereign debt that they hold).
Equality for All?LONDON – Last month, I was invited to speak at the York Festival of Ideas, an annual forum for debating alternative, predominantly progressive policy goals.
Unlike the Shahbag events, the counter-demonstration was well-planned and organized, and conveyed the stark message that there was an alternative point of view in this overwhelmingly Muslim country.
This fits with the 12th Five-Year Plan’s new focus on innovation-based “strategic emerging industries” – energy conservation, new-generation information technology, biotechnology, high-end equipment manufacturing, renewable energy, alternative materials, and autos running on alternative fuels.
If, however, she signals a preference for an alternative path, democratic institutions, public opinion, and economic pressure will remind her that Chileans do not favor changing the approach that has made their country the envy of Latin America.
The euro is now the primary alternative to the dollar.
But it has little coercive power, because anyone is free to try an alternative.
I estimated the impact on GDP of America’s recent and projected debt increase (in which the explosive growth of public spending on pensions and health care looms largest), using four alternative estimates of the effect of debt on growth: a smaller Reinhart/Rogoff estimate from a more recent paper; a widely used International Monetary Fund study, which finds a larger impact (and which deals with the potential reverse-causality problem); a related CBO study; and a simple production function with government debt crowding out tangible capital.
According to the OECD, genomics will become a central component of many economic sectors, including health care, the environment, agriculture, animal health, biotechnology, alternative energy, forensics, justice, and security.
The alternative to such a political compromise may be a return to the tragic and bloody secessionist course that the Tigers sought for so long.
They result either from policy elites’ inability to convince domestic constituencies of the benefits of the alternative, or from their unwillingness to make adjustments to ensure that everyone does indeed benefit.
They are increasingly determined also by calculations regarding expected future fundamentals (such as economic growth in Asia) and alternative returns (such as interest rates) – in other words, by speculators.
An alternative approach, giving positive inducements to a tyrant to leave office, might work in some circumstances.
Meanwhile, Macri’s government, which is hosting the G20’s annual summit this week, has been using the body’s forums to promote gas as a sustainable energy alternative.
Sound economic judgment and discretion are required as well, given the need to weigh the risks of alternative policies and the ease with which financial markets can be roiled.
The only alternative is to shift quickly to Plan B – an orderly restructuring and reduction of the debts of these countries’ governments, households, and banks.
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