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Most
arguments
in favor of infrastructure investment focus on the negative: collapsing bridges, congested highways, second-rate air travel, and so forth.
Indeed, Syafi’i Ma’arif, the former chair of Muhammadiyah, has made pluralist arguments, grounded in the Koran, against blind obedience to Islamic classical jurisprudence.
The former head of Fatayat, Maria Ulfah Anshor, has made sophisticated
arguments
grounded in fiqh for women’s access to reproductive rights.
In one particularly absurd case, a group of Muslim feminists who wrote a book promoting women’s rights based on Koranic exegesis had to publish their work in secret, because it included
arguments
for women’s reproductive rights and a small percentage of the group’s funding came from a foundation that had received money from USAID.
Economic
arguments
failed to win them over – the decline of the Euro vis-a-vis the Dollar obviously playing an important psychological role in this.
But too little emphasis was put on the political
arguments.
The Non-Crisis of the EuroBERKELEY – The global financial crisis has breathed new life into hoary
arguments
about the euro’s imminent demise.
Such
arguments
often invoke Milton Friedman, who warned in 1998 that Europe’s commitment to the euro would be tested by the first serious economic downturn.
Arguments
about the euro crisis that disregard the “Karlsruhe factor,” therefore, amount to little more than sterile intellectual debate.
If one focuses on net exports, following Keynesian or even mercantilist arguments, might one not expect to find that Trump’s tariffs stimulate US economic growth, with others’ losses being America’s gains?
And the candidates’ performances are scrutinized less on the substance of their
arguments
than on their presentation, body language, facial tics, unguarded sighs, smiles, sneers, and inadvertent eye rolling.
He had the better arguments, but he lost the “debates” (and the election) nonetheless.
Consider the three standard
arguments
for a green economy: climate change, energy security, and jobs.
In any case,
arguments
about the size of world oil reserves and when global production will peak misses the key security issue.
These
arguments
are all part of the overwhelming economic case for free trade.
So here are ten good reasons to believe in Europe – ten rational
arguments
to convince pessimistic analysts, and worried investors alike, that it is highly premature to bury the euro and the EU altogether.
To be sure, Germany accounts for the largest share of the eurozone’s external surplus, and three related
arguments
are typically used to justify the call for German authorities to use fiscal policy to address it.
From Germany’s perspective, the most obvious objection to these
arguments
is that it is not the German government’s responsibility to manage international demand.
But, even as politicians and economists run out of
arguments
in favor of the euro, few dare to challenge its fundamental structure, let alone propose alternatives.
While theoretical
arguments
can be made to justify recent departures from policy, the reality is that in the post-crisis world, advanced-country central banks’ goals are no longer limited to price stability.
The real reason why central-bank independence tends to create a democratic deficit under a multi-target monetary-policy regime, and why it has become increasingly vulnerable, is that the two main
arguments
in favor of it no longer apply.
The
arguments
against maintaining kings and queens are mostly quite rational.
Yet, ominously, the same
arguments
that turned the 1929 financial crisis into the Great Depression are being used today in favor of austerity at all costs.
Failure to provide proper
arguments
and reasons for a negotiating position could lead to a breakdown of communication among the parties.
There may not be nostalgia for the Cold War in any of this, but much of that era’s mindset can be perceived again in the
arguments
being knocked about.
Such
arguments
do not withstand scrutiny.
Containment prevailed, but this hardly settled the debate, as there were intense
arguments
both over where it should be applied (Vietnam, Central America, and the Middle East all come to mind) and how it should be carried out, i.e., the right mix of military force, covert action, diplomacy and arms control, and economic sanctions and assistance.
The
arguments
against creating a European single currency and then allowing Greece to cheat its way into membership were valid back in the 1990s – and, in theory, they still are.
All three
arguments
are weak.
Of course, the most cited
arguments
on both sides tend to be the most reductive.
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