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The Warburg brothers, Max and Paul, were a transatlantic tandem, energetically pushing for German-American institutions that would offer an alternative to British industrial and financial monopoly.
The alternative will be unilateral measures aimed at achieving the same goals, but leading to outcomes that leave everyone worse off.
In the absence of a credible and readily available political alternative, deadlock will likely continue, with the pace of change slower than the population demands.
It was meant as an alternative to the ever-increasing number of accession rounds, say, involving the countries in the southern Caucasus.
Yet, in light of the situation there is no better alternative.
The alternative – to reject the European Arrest Warrant issued by Swedish authorities – would have signaled distrust of Sweden’s legal system, which would have been unfair.
The global rise in oil prices, endemic fear of change, lack of a viable alternative, and reliance on state hand-outs are keeping Russia in a state of inertia.
Yet Putin’s Kremlin continues to work tirelessly to prevent the formation of a strong opposition – increasing the risk that the regime will collapse without a viable alternative.
The real sources of growth are not to be found in supplies and demands and the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses, but in technological and organizational change – about which economists have too little to say.
To help confidence revive, there is no alternative but to use macroeconomic tools to boost demand and sustain output.
The alternative is the prospect of widespread debt default, banking controls, and protectionism – an outcome that would set back these countries, and the global economy as a whole, for years to come.
We need fundamental breakthroughs in alternative energy sources, and soon.
For my part, I would not have chosen to accept a one in three – or even a one in six – chance of a disaster that would have killed hundreds of millions and shattered our cities, even if the alternative were a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
In almost willful ignorance of the fact that the growth-centered model has proved itself time and again, skeptics advocate an alternative “redistributive” developmental model, which they believe will have a greater impact on reducing poverty.
We won’t know for a few months which alternative will prevail.
After all, the EU has no alternative security mechanism.
Moreover, exclusive dealing can increase competition by allowing two platforms to occupy distinct market niches, with the alternative being that one drives out the other.
Moreover, so long as China’s government is delivering consistently rising standards of living, as it has been over the last few decades, there is no need, according to the authorities, even to consider alternative systems.
What they do share is that their “success” was driven largely by the sense that powerful external threats made the alternative – no deal at all – much worse.
I don’t think there is a viable alternative to global capitalism, but it does need better institutions.
Traditional moneylenders are the only alternative, and they extort far more than 30% a year – often at the point of a knife, or worse.
Today, the most viable alternative to China’s political status quo is left Confucianism.
This should make us think about smart, alternative solutions.
But one such alternative, geoengineering, is a solution that many people refuse to entertain.
The alternative – for each country to go its own way, as the British have chosen to do – would be reckless.
For a majority of Israelis today, the present and the foreseeable future are not about peacemaking, but about conflict management, through the preservation of credible deterrence – a hard-core realistic assessment darkened by the perception that, while time is not necessarily on Israel’s side, that there is no alternative.
In Afghanistan, that so-called war has essentially been based on eradication campaigns and alternative livelihood projects, which have achieved only scant results.
But eradication and alternative livelihood projects mainly affect the lowest end of the value-added chain, the farmers, with no real impact on those higher up, such as large landowners and local traffickers, not to mention the extremely powerful drug lords and the international cartels and mafias.
In economic theory, household light bulb purchases reflect net present value calculations of lifetime bulb and electricity costs for alternative bulb types, which could be influenced by taxes on incandescent bulbs, or through carbon prices on electricity.
So how should we choose among alternative simplifications of reality?
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