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Under a relatively “good bargain,” the creditors would modify interest rates and extend maturities further, as the International Monetary Fund now suggests, so that Greece does not have to pay the unpayable over the coming years, in exchange for growth-enhancing structural reforms.
This will be necessary if the two sides are to arrive at a good bargain, rather than a bad one – or even an outright failure to cooperate, so that Greece effectively drops out of the euro.
The New Deal created an image of a commercial transaction, like the buyout of a company or an incentive package for executives – something that contracting parties bargain over and agree to.
A Trans-Atlantic TransitionAUSTIN – Despite many calls for a “new Atlanticism” or a “new transatlantic bargain,” the US-European relationship remains imprisoned by old habits.
These theories revolve largely around a bargain between the propertied elite and the working classes: faced with the threat of revolt, the elites expand the franchise and allow the masses to vote.
A democratic bargain becomes feasible only when the masses are able to organize and mobilize around common interests.
This makes credible both their threat of insurrection before the bargain and their promise to protect property rights afterwards.
So the democratic bargain yields property and political rights, but only rarely civil rights as well.
The bargain has survived remarkably well, despite the tough times that South African democracy has experienced since then.
Putin is failing to uphold his end of a tacit bargain with the Russian middle classes – “you keep quiet, and I keep improving your lifestyle” – and the resulting disquiet is increasingly on display on the streets of Russia’s cities.
But without that all-important bargain – which provided Putin with a kind of legitimacy more durable in Russia that any vote could ever be – it will become increasingly difficult to keep the various factions of the Russian elite in line.
This holds the potential to be a potent weapon in dealing with outsiders like the IMF, or when foreigners buy (at bargain prices) into banks, public utilities and big companies.
A time-out needs to be called so that the players, including President-elect Barack Obama, can negotiate a new bargain for the region.
But a political settlement within Afghanistan cannot succeed without a regional grand bargain.
Similarly, Claude Barfield has documented how Colombia has been intimidated into making it a crime (with prison terms of up to five years) to engage in acts that “undermine the right to organize and bargain collectively.”
In fact, elites everywhere have always lived by this injunction, and ordinary people have not minded very much, provided that the elites fulfill their part of the bargain: protect the country against its enemies and improve living conditions.
As for the nuclear deal, Trump has moved beyond demonizing Iran publicly to decertifying the agreement, even though Iran has kept up its end of the bargain.
Because Europe is at peace, with no singular, overriding security threat, it is likely that when the extent of the bargain becomes clear, voters and politicians in the rich creditor countries will reject it.
Of course, Iran may keep up its end of the bargain for the full 15-year timeline, but then what?
So far, the grand bargain between the core and the periphery has held up: the periphery continues austerity and reform while the core remains patient and provides financing.
If successful, the bargain should also aim at a total normalization of relations between Iran and the US.
Fostering policies that encourage an economy to squander its saving and live beyond its means makes trade deficits a given – as are the seemingly unfair trading practices that may come with this Faustian bargain for foreign capital.
Europe has indeed failed to uphold its side of the collective defense bargain.
More importantly, Lukashenko’s break with the West left him at the mercy of Russia – and the Russians, sensing his weakness, decided to bargain hard.
As societies consider their R&D strategies, they must find ways to coax their largest corporations into a more AT&T-like bargain.
But, with the global financial crisis, the Kremlin stopped meeting its side of the bargain.
The Obama administration’s current effort to strike a Faustian bargain with the Taliban, for example, ignores America’s own experience of the consequences of following the path of expediency.
Leaders in government, the private sector, and civil society must join us in working toward this ambitious goal.Developed countries could solve the global family-planning funding shortfall for a mere 20 cents per person per year, a bargain given the projected returns for individuals, families, and economies.
Developed countries could solve the global family-planning funding shortfall for a mere 20 cents per person per year, a bargain given the projected returns for individuals, families, and economies.
That leaves the third option, a diplomatic bargain, for which Kim’s price is direct talks with the US, a security guarantee, and the type of economic incentives that were offered to Iran.
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