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But this argument is specious: one can have a vigorous transportation industry, with trucks, rail, and air cargo moving agricultural produce within and across nations, as countries such as pre-Peronist Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and modern Chile have done very successfully.
Because of the financial crisis, many politicians have accepted the argument, in a virtual throwback to Adam Smith, that financial services are unproductive – even counterproductive – and need to be scaled back by governmental intervention.
But the argument between austerians and Keynesians over how to encourage sustained recovery intersects with another debate.
I am neither gay, nor Ghanaian, but I have spent considerable time in Ghana and I reject the argument - heard in other parts of Africa as well - that Western notions of sexuality have perverted Africans.
They believe that the country’s growing economic malaise will strengthen the argument for sticking with what Egyptians know, rather than opting for a more uncertain future.
But, whatever the merits of the claim that genetic patents benefit research and treatment, that is a practical, rather than a legal, argument.
That is a clever argument, but is it really the source of people’s profound disquiet about genetic patenting?
Their argument is that what is patented is not the gene as it occurs in our bodies, but rather a sort of “cloned” version produced in the laboratory.
We do not have to believe in genetic determinism to find that argument compelling.
The argument can be made that a multilateral approach is not just the better option; it is the only one.
What is new about Macron is that he was able to clearly articulate this argument during the campaign, whereas most other political leaders today have expediently avoided defending Europe.
Developing nations, the argument went, have plenty of investment opportunities, but are short of savings.
They buttress their argument with empirical work that suggests that growth in developing countries has become progressively more dependent on China’s economic performance.
The report provides a strong argument for allowing doctors to help their patients to die, provided that the patients are competent and freely request such assistance.
The ethical basis of the panel’s argument is not so much the avoidance of unnecessary suffering in terminally ill patients, but rather the core value of individual autonomy or self-determination.
Summers’s Keynesian argument is that the problem is a chronic aggregate-demand shortfall: Desired investment lags behind desired savings, even at near-zero nominal interest rates, resulting in a chronic liquidity trap.
That should have ended the argument.
The Keynesian remedy, the argument went, ignored the effect of fiscal policy on expectations.
The “end-of-civilization” argument is counterproductive to serious public debate.
Trade experts met in parallel and made the mirror image of this argument.
This time, however, Scottish nationalists would not have to worry about the Unionist argument that independence implies a de facto withdrawal from the EU.
The argument seems valid, except that the Europeans would willingly suspend their scheme if a global, effective, and non-discriminatory solution were agreed upon.
The deep reason for this particular argument is the EU's looming enlargement, which will take the membership from 15 to 25 countries in May 2004.
This argument is correct in the sense that it is the current-account surplus or deficit of a monetary union as a whole that can be expected to have exchange-rate implications.
The argument for Nord Stream 2 is that it will meet the EU’s growing demand for gas.
The argument for making this change is especially strong in cases such as Syria, where the government has acted without concern for the wellbeing of communities living in rebel-controlled areas.
The argument against transparency has been that, in the unusual circumstances of the ECB, to expose the votes of individual members of the Governing Council would put pressure on them as representatives of member states.
In the Middle East, one widespread argument, which even the Islamic State expounds, puts much of the blame for chronic conflict on the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the secret deal agreed 100 years ago by France and Great Britain to divide between them the soon-to-be-former Ottoman Empire.
For the sake of argument, even if Musharraf faces impeachment and by some stroke of luck is saved from being thrown out of office, his future will be bleak.
It should never be forgotten that Trump wormed his way into US politics by promoting the racist “birther” argument, which claimed that then-President Barack Obama was not born in the US and therefore did not qualify for the office he held.
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