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The current system’s defenders argue that Russia cannot afford an all-volunteer army.
Although supporters of Kosovo’s independence argue that it sets no international precedent, China’s rulers fear otherwise.
Cooperation with China, they argue, could enable Africa to chart its own development course, independent of Western policy prescriptions.
Given this, one might argue that slower growth would be good for the world.
The US (and other industrial countries) could argue that it has high levels of unemployment and should be free to adopt policies that boost growth, even at the expense of growth in emerging markets.
These countries, in turn, could argue that even very poor US households are much better off than the average emerging-market household.
Instead, those who argue that the Chinese economy is overheating cite the high rate of investment in plant and equipment and real estate, which reached 43% of GDP in 2004.
But, in Powell’s case, I would argue that it should not be.
Some argue that central-government paralysis is inevitable in a democracy of 1.2 billion people, and that the only way to re-energize India is to establish a looser confederation of its constituent states.
France and Southern European countries, by contrast, argue that governments need more flexibility to decide on fiscal and structural reforms, and that governments with greater fiscal leeway should help to address current imbalances by increasing their public expenditures.
In my book The Future of Power, I argue that the diffusion of power away from governments is one of this century’s great political shifts.
[Graph]Economists weighing this issue through the lens of “revealed preference theory” would argue that asylum-seekers are analytical decision-makers who seek out countries such as Germany for its low unemployment rate.
The Chinese argue that the renminbi’s addition to the SDR basket should be seen in a broader context.
After all, equal opportunists argue, if everyone begins at the same starting point, a bad outcome must be due to an individual’s own missteps.
Opponents argue that the court created in 1978 under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was designed for an era before the advent of big data, and that current practice stretches the provisions of the Patriot Act, passed after the September 11 attacks.
Nonetheless, I would argue that we are witnessing the end of one era of world history and the dawn of another.
This is not to argue that we are in for a new Dark Ages.
Granted, one could argue that in some cases they overshot – for example, with the second round of so-called “quantitative easing” in the US – but, roughly speaking, the response seems to have been appropriate.
Rather, buoyed by the doctrine of deterrence, they argue that reductions would weaken global security.
They argue that regulatory constraints make it difficult for them to adjust to changes in technology and product demand, and that this in turn lowers their efficiency, raises their costs and, as a result, deters job creation.
Workers, on the other hand, focus on the pain of unemployment, and argue that such pain should be taken into account by firms when they consider closing a plant or laying off a worker.
European opponents of a MAP for Ukraine and Georgia argue that neither country is ready for NATO membership.
Only a constitution, they argue, can restore much needed legitimacy to a political system that is widely perceived as deeply corrupt and inept.
European officials will argue that their problem is more difficult.
Advocates of a more open policy argue that populations are aging and workforces are diminishing, so greater immigration is needed to sustain high living standards.
One could, of course, argue that the SGP should be scrapped, because austerity makes no sense when the eurozone faces the risk of deflation.
The Commission must regain political and intellectual leadership and make its choice: either explain why the SGP rules must be followed even now, in the face of deflation, or agree with those who argue that the current environment calls for a fiscal stimulus.
One might argue that this example concerns only the value of trade, and that in recent decades, the growth of trade by volume also has exceeded that of real GDP growth.
I did not argue that whaling should stop because whales are endangered.
Over time, they argue, the tax should be allowed to rise slowly to encourage the deployment of effective, affordable technology alternatives.
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