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What makes the Nuffield report controversial is its precedent-setting argument.
Ferguson’s argument amounts to that of a brutal disciplinarian who claims vindication for his methods by pointing out that the victim is still alive.
Nor will China get very far with the spurious argument that the US is somehow stirring up regional hostility against it, as if such mischief would be in the long-term interest of an America that already has enough on its plate.
In his recent book Average is Over, the economist Tyler Cowen makes the deliberately provocative argument that while new technology will produce extreme inequality, the relative losers, satiated by computer games and Internet entertainment, and provided with the basics of a minimally acceptable life, will be too docile to revolt.
This is not because economics prizes logical argument, which is an essential check on faulty reasoning.
The argument for a single regulator is deceptively simple: after all, a single country has a single national government, so why not have a single regulator for all financial regulation?
If the European Union is to have a single market, the argument continues, then it needs a single financial regulator.
Monetary policymakers, the argument goes, should be independent from the political system, because, when elections near, politicians will likely pressure them to “buy” temporarily higher employment at the cost of permanently higher inflation.
This argument, made by the Bundesbank, seems to support a wealth tax.
What trade officials have never taken on board is that the fairness argument extends beyond the dumping arena.
The refusal to make a reference to God is based on the false argument that confuses secularism with neutrality or impartiality.
But the next step in the argument – that the winner of an increasingly ugly contest will have the luxury of pursuing significantly different policies from his opponent – is much more uncertain.
But, though this argument is valid in principle, economic models show that this risk has only a moderate effect on the best policy.
To frame his argument, Carstens returned to first principles, seeking to define money and then to understand the extent to which digital currencies qualify.
This is not an argument against transformational leaders.
Nor is this an argument against transformational leaders in US foreign policy.
One argument I often hear is that the financial services sector is risk-averse.
The debate over the irrationality of financial markets is no mere academic argument.
So, when President George W. Bush withdrew the US from that agreement, he relied on the same argument that Trump is now using to withdraw the US from the Paris accord.
But while the UK is certainly a democracy, her argument to the British people is not unlike what Russian President Vladimir Putin tells his own citizens: no one lives by bread alone, and recovering sovereignty and national greatness is worth the economic risk.
Mankiw made that argument, but he failed to be understood.
The problem with this argument is that it is not easy to see why legal paternalism is justified but legal moralism is not.
This possibility highlights the weakness of the argument that abortion, too, is wrong because it destroys a genetically unique human being.
Non-libertarians recognize the fatal flaw in this argument: financial blow-ups entail what economists call a “systemic risk” – everyone pays a price.
There can be no argument that China today is a global power.
That argument is debatable – and the record of the Kosovar government suggests that it is wrong.
If ratings are not backed by the force of law, so the argument goes, regulators need not worry about rating quality and can leave the monitoring of raters to the market.
But his argument that many US workers have suffered – and could suffer still more – from free trade has struck a chord, because it is partly true.
Western governments believed this argument, and responded by offering Russia another $17 billion in loans from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and some other sources.
Trade deficits, goes the argument, lead to job losses and wage compression.
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