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Trump bases this approach on the nonsensical belief that human-driven climate change is a hoax, invented by the Chinese to make US industry less competitive.
For starters, contrary to popular belief, world growth hasn’t been especially disappointing so far this decade.
On a worldwide scale, nuclear energy is thus only a small component of the global energy mix, and its share, contrary to widespread belief, is not on the rise.
To help people escape, human development strategies must consider how to bolster personal agency, aspiration, and self-efficacy – the belief in one’s ability to influence events that affect one’s life.
The root cause of the current global crisis was intellectual hubris in the form of the blind belief that markets would always resolve their own problems and contradictions.
Some on the left, motivated in part by revulsion against financial types who are thought to reap unjustified incomes, have joined forces with conventional economists, whose almost religious belief in their models has blinded them to the harm their dubious economic theory can do to the real economy and the interests of ordinary people.
More broadly, Putin’s belief that the economic crisis was causing the West to disintegrate aligns with traditional Soviet geopolitical thinking.
First and foremost, the belief in a “new normal” of anemic growth and low inflation is deeply embedded among investors and central bankers.
But until this happens, investors’ unshakable belief that low inflation is a permanent feature of economic reality will allow the US government to pursue increasingly inflationary policies.
Belief formed under pressure or coercion is not true belief.
Yeltsin’s choice of Putin – encouraged, ironically, by Boris Berezovsky, the prominent Russian oligarch and Yeltsin advisor who is now exiled in London as Putin’s mortal enemy – was based on his belief that the quiet apparatchik, even if a former KGB spy, was a democrat at heart.
Asians, according to this theory, have their own values, which include thrift, deference to authority, the sacrifice of individual to collective interests, and the belief that countries should not stick their noses into others’ affairs.
One of the factors driving the UK’s sense of unease in its relations with an increasingly bureaucratized Europe is the belief that its values and institutions are closer to those of the US, or of other English-speaking former colonies.
This belief does not imply South Korean cynicism about nonproliferation.
A few decades ago, it was widely assumed that progress in mass education would gradually bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and popular belief, thereby contributing to a more serene and more rational democracy.
Promisingly, the political leadership has affirmed its belief in “minimum government, maximum governance.”
Because foreign debt has such a direct impact on people's lives, diverse proposals have been made to government officials, in the belief that the foreign debt burden is fundamentally a political problem - one that must be faced now, not later.
But it also reflects a growing belief that the war is failing.
The truth of a racist belief is not the issue.
The US also developed a particular populist belief that gun ownership constitutes a vital protection against government tyranny.
Or will it, too, succumb and revert to a belief in state controls and protected national economies.
So it mobilized small-scale farmers, artisans, and small producers who shared the landed elite's belief that unfettered competition was harmful.
This project has received wide acclaim from officials, economists, and entrepreneurs, reflecting a widespread belief that boosting growth and competitiveness starts at the grass roots level.
By contrast, developed country policymakers’ default stance seems to be that proactive or preemptive measures require a high degree of certainty, owing to a deep-seated belief that financial markets are stable and self-regulating.
It encouraged individuals and financial institutions to make loans to and invest in the East Asian countries, drawn by high domestic interest rates and returns to investment, and reassured about currency risk by the belief that the IMF would bail them out if the unexpected happened and the exchange pegs broke.
But Sufis do not need – or want – help spreading their age-old belief system.
This approach is driven by the belief that every dollar should achieve the most good that it can.
Pity the PolicymakersNEWPORT BEACH – I don’t know about you, but whenever I am in an airplane experiencing turbulence, I draw comfort from the belief that the pilots sitting behind the cockpit’s closed door know what to do.
More important, American isolationism – based on a false belief that the US was safely protected by two oceans – allowed Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to wage aggressive war and threaten the entire world.
But the SEC could do more than just avow its belief in “uncensored and transparent crowd discussions.”
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