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Right now, for example we are putting the hawks-versus-doves argument about the Iran nuclear deal to the forecasting test.
Perhaps more than the argument itself, what makes Capital in the Twenty-First Century a great read is the sense of witnessing a superb mind grapple with the big questions of our time.
The book’s argument revolves around a number of accounting identities that relate saving, growth, and the return to capital to the distribution of wealth in a society.
Yet extrapolation is dangerous in economics, and the evidence that Piketty adduces to support his argument is hardly conclusive.
Perhaps, given the global nature of the problems we now face, this is an argument for a federalist world, rather than one divided into sovereign nation-states.
They want to book a flight, reserve a table, buy a product, cure a hangover, take a class, fix a leak, resolve an argument, or occasionally find a person, for which Facebook is very handy.
As historians are trained to do, I based my argument on the archives.
The argument has been made that recognition as a state, even in limited form, will give Palestine the standing that it probably lacks currently to seek prosecutions in the International Criminal Court for alleged violations of international law.
Even if right, it is difficult to see why Israel and its friends should accept that as a make-or-break argument.
The more positive argument – as Rabin would certainly have understood – is that it is overwhelmingly in Israel’s own interest to defuse this issue by accepting, once and for all, that Palestinian statehood is an indispensable requirement of its own long-term peace and security.
The argument that other EU countries would be likely to follow the UK’s lead is dubious.
The change reflects central bankers’ argument that to target credit or liquidity requires another tool.
Nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, counter-terrorism, and civil nuclear-energy risk reduction are inextricably connected, and they call for sustained commitment around a comprehensive agenda, and detailed argument.
Given current talk of trade wars, it bears recalling that it was an argument over Ukraine’s association agreement with the EU that led to Yanukovych’s overthrow and an undeclared war with Russia.
To be effective, elections must be preceded by an extensive period of debate and argument.
There is more: Once the demand problem is cured, according to this argument, companies will start hiring again.
At the root of the argument that civil society is an attack on the political system, we find the well known unwillingness to share power.
The propensity to use this inconsistent argument reflects a proclivity for the status quo and a bias against policy innovation.
Today’s enemies of Islam often use precisely this argument: Muslims lie to infidels.
This brings us to the second part of the argument against optimism: analytics.
If that is the argument, however, why should we single out couples who use IVF?
Unfortunately, this argument backfired.
The argument against European structures depends on hostility to a transfer union that might lead to some redistribution of resources.
The Tsarnaevs’ attack superficially appears to justify Putin’s nationalist politics in the North Caucasus, and to lend credence to his argument that Russia’s two wars against Chechen independence – from 1994 to 1996 and in 1999 – were waged in the name of national security.
Getting into a philosophical argument with him was like playing chess with a grandmaster: he had already thought of every response I could make to his arguments, considered several possible replies, and knew the objections to each reply as well as the best counters to those objections.
If there ever were need for yet another clinching argument for a presidential system in India, it is the spectacle of the head of government abandoning the responsibilities of that office every few months to go on the stump for their party.
First published as samizdat that was smuggled out of Czechoslovakia, the essay makes a simple but compelling argument.
Havel did not have the tools of modern economic theory to demonstrate his argument formally.
In my new book The Republic of Beliefs, I show that the essence of his argument can be given formal structure using elementary game theory.
Until not long ago, there was a strong left-wing current in education and some of the media that used Japan’s horrendous wartime record as an argument against any kind of revisionism.
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