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Unfortunately, economists and other social scientists get virtually no training in how to choose among alternative models.
But would the world economy really be better off today under an alternative monetary policy that kept unemployment in America at an average rate of 7% rather than 5%?
The first locomotive, however, ran out of fuel seven years ago, and there is no clear technology-driven alternative leading sector, like biotechnology, that can inspire similar exuberance, rational or otherwise.
While the US has taken only 100 days to see through Trump’s “alternative reality” (though perhaps not through Trump himself), almost nobody in Britain is even questioning the alternative reality of Brexit, despite the unexpected opportunity afforded by the June 8 election to avoid a self-destructive rupture from Europe.
The alternative to a world in which America guarantees global prosperity and stability within a liberal order is one of increasing conflict, replete with mercantilism, protectionism, and currency wars.
More problematic, lower oil prices encourage excessive consumption – the long-term environmental impact of which will be compounded by the weakening incentive to invest in alternative energy sources.
There is a serious risk that, if the crisis becomes even worse, East European governments will see no alternative but to nationalize some institutions, particularly some of the foreign-controlled banks.
We are in the age of oil’s “new normal,” defined by plentiful alternative energy sources.
In a country without resource wealth, by contrast, elites have little alternative but to nurture a decentralized economy in which individuals have incentives to work and save.
Finally, some promising ideas have virtually never been tried at all: denominating bonds in oil prices instead of dollars, to protect against the risk of a price decline; choosing commodity-price targeting as an alternative to inflation targeting or exchange-rate targeting for anchoring monetary policy; and distributing oil revenues on a nationwide per capita basis, to ensure that they do not wind up in elites’ Swiss bank accounts.
Decades before the discovery of cures like penicillin, there was no alternative but to invest in prevention to beat infectious diseases and protect growing urban populations.
Another alternative might be to advance multilateral negotiations among willing countries in specific areas, such as services, with other WTO members joining later.
A better alternative, both environmentally and economically, would be to boost investment in treatment facilities to make tap water safe in cities.
By contrast, the final alternative to this system maximizes the flow of knowledge, by maintaining a creative commons, exemplified by open-source software.
Other Asian countries might even be drawn closer to Japan, the only alternative to the US as a counterbalance to the Middle Kingdom.
As grumbling against his program grew louder, the President asked the governor of Khabarovsk, Viktor Ishayev, to devise an alternative strategy.
By implicating Ishayev (a representative of the old and the cautious) into the process, Putin created the appearance of consensus, but in reality demonstrated that there is no valid economic alternative to a liberal course.
But, by early 2016, prices had plummeted to around $30 per barrel, owing to a combination of sluggish demand, alternative supply (particularly shale oil and gas from the United States), and a new OPEC production paradigm under which the cartel, led by Saudi Arabia, withdrew from acting as a “swing producer.”
Add to that the increased production from alternative sources (most consequentially, shale) that higher prices encouraged, and the beneficial demand effects are offset, if not overwhelmed.
Only the American alternative is viable.
For now, there is simply no alternative.
But without an alternative to the nation-state as the basis of citizenship, the legitimacy and effectiveness of EU institutions have come under growing strain.
An alternative must therefore be found to a definition of citizenship that regards these institutions as merely some sort of formalized representation of member states' common political will.
What should an alternative conception of European citizenship look like?
Yet there is also an ethically responsible and practical alternative to divestment that can help steer fossil-fuel companies toward the low-carbon future.
Alternative shipping fuels exist.
The initiative brings together shipping operators, polar explorers, NGOs, communities, and businesses to back an HFO phase-out, ahead of any increase in Arctic shipping, while urging the broader shipping industry to switch to alternative fuels.
Viewed in this light, the AU’s decision seems to have been driven by the desire to establish the African Court as an alternative to the ICC, thereby giving the continent’s leaders – including those who met in Equatorial Guinea – a means of gaining immunity for their crimes.
Financial support for Wall Street villains infuriated many, but no one proposed a better alternative at the time – or has since.
The alternative was to pursue a full policy agenda aligned with the priorities and commitments enunciated in Obama’s election campaign.
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