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A high point of the meeting was the speech by Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, who stressed the marked change in her institution, at least at the top: deep concern about women’s rights; renewed emphasis on the link between inequality and instability; and recognition that collective bargaining and minimum wages could play an important role in reducing inequality.
A charitable interpretation is that, as a tough and pragmatic businessman, Trump is simply using threats to stake out a strong bargaining position, and that sense and reason will ultimately prevail.
There is a simple, if radical, solution: abrogate the legal provisions that regulate the duration of employment contracts, and return the treatment of tenure and seniority to collective bargaining, as is the case elsewhere.
Machiavellian deception is often part of a strategy in bargaining to get a deal, and Trump claims to be a master of that art.
To maintain credibility in bargaining with the enemy, a president must maintain a relentless public optimism, which serves to misinform the public.
Corporatism (which should be distinguished from the tripartite bargaining structures that emerged in many countries in the 1970’s under the name “neo-corporatism”)became the most influential ethically motivated intervention into economics in modern history.
By raising the bargaining power of agricultural labor, the act’s passage has led to higher farm wages, greater purchasing power for the rural poor, and lower distress migration.
In this sense, the cartel would double as an international workers’ union, lending bargaining power to employees in countries where unions are weak or not permitted at all.
Moreover, unemployment rates remain high, giving workers little bargaining power.
Jose Barrionuevo, a financial analyst at Barclays Capital, recently stressed that Brazil's immediate challenge is likely to be a further decline in the value of the real , driving up inflation and unemployment, and thus further dissipating Lula's bargaining power with America and the outside world.
Moreover, Russia, still traumatized by its Cold War defeat, wants to maintain the Syria-Iran axis as a key bargaining chip in its difficult relations with the West, while both it and China are simply weary of the West’s naiveté.
And just about the only bargaining chip that Varoufakis holds may be the implicit threat that Greece could leave the euro ("Grexit").
It would also offer a credible alternative to remaining in the eurozone under current terms, thereby strengthening Greece's hand in bargaining for a deal that ensures that Grexit does not in fact occur.
America’s major trading partners may not want to do this in one fell swoop; sometimes threats are just as unsettling – and thus just as effective as a bargaining chip.
And so, after six months of bargaining, a historic deal was struck.
Minimum wages and collective bargaining can play an important role here.
Only when all sides recognize that no one can win it all will bargaining and negotiation replace polarization and political crisis.
Security, defense, and foreign policies are too important to be treated as bargaining chips in a negotiation focused on economics.
He might receive offers, and perhaps the bargaining has already started.
They affect relative bargaining power, with important implications for inequality, a growing problem around the world.
For the use of hard-power resources, two skills are particularly important: organizational capacity and a Machiavellian proficiency in bullying, buying, and bargaining to form winning coalitions.
Widening the scope of the next round of negotiations so that much more can be used as bargaining chips would make the job of the negotiators considerably harder.
In this novel social relationship, the customer was free to buy whatever he wanted, whenever and from whomever he chose, often bargaining with the seller about the price.
As the budget situation deteriorated, transfers from Buenos Aires to provincial governments became a matter for day-to-day political bargaining.
The prospect of a forced exit would restore balance to the eurozone by giving member countries a strong incentive to follow the rules, while taking away their disproportionate bargaining power.
Holding onto territory as a bargaining chip makes less sense if there is no one with whom to bargain.
Bargaining over the economic surplus is often open-ended, especially if competition is weak.
Where employees have high bargaining power, the profits pie is constantly up for re-division, both within the firm and at the national level.
Consider Chile, where the current leftist government has sent a bill to Congress that promises to improve income distribution simply by giving unions more power in collective bargaining.
Similarly, the potential for union-led bargaining to redistribute income presupposes non-competitive corporate practices, which in turn generate abnormal profits that can be bargained away by unions.
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