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Given the “publish or perish” model that defines academic careers, and the competitive funding environment for all scientists, individuals benefit more from “owning” the data underlying their publications than from sharing their work.
Governments can benefit from the experience of other countries in deciding which policies to adapt to local conditions and which to avoid.
The result of such failures is that small elites benefit while the majority suffers.
The trouble is that the more you start to think of your welfare in terms of money, the more likely you are to regard spending time with your friends or making love as an “opportunity cost” – the loss of money you would have made by working instead – rather than a benefit.
Such reasoning crystallizes opposing views of the world, one in which time is a cost, and the other in which it is a benefit.
None of the structural reforms essential to improving Italy’s growth potential – for example, labor-market and unemployment benefit reforms, product market liberalizations, improvements of the education system, reforms of the public administration in the South – has been carried out, even though Berlusconi could count on solid majorities in both chambers of Parliament.
Aggregate capital flows to emerging markets are likely to rebound later this year, but not all countries and all sectors will benefit.
Contrary to the simplistic view that regulation is inevitably bad for business, there are in fact three important channels through which regulation can benefit an economy.
Regulation can also benefit an economy by enabling competition.
But, without its own currency-issuing central bank, Scotland would forego seigniorage (profits from central-bank operations that typically benefit the national treasury).
So, too, would legislation to allow full ownership of enterprises by foreigners and the proper protection of their property rights – which would have the added benefit of encouraging expatriates to save and invest locally.
In the end, inclusive growth may generate a more prosperous and egalitarian society, whereas redistribution may fail to benefit either inclusion or growth.
Caste-based “reservations” (reserved places) in education and government employment are supposed to benefit India’s most deprived, but in reality they have hardened, rather than eroded, India’s ancient system of discrimination.
Every now and then, particularly before elections, caste groups demand to be placed on the list of “other backwards classes” (OBC’s), in order to benefit from these reservations.
It signaled that America’s new president was less interested in using government to solve society’s problems than he was in cutting taxes, mainly for the benefit of the wealthy.
If America realizes these bold steps through purposeful public policies, as Obama outlined, the innovative science, new technology, and powerful demonstration effects that result will benefit countries around the world.
He is right to do so, because many of today’s crucial challenges – saving the planet from our own excesses; ensuring that technological advances benefit all members of society; and building the new infrastructure that we need nationally and globally for a sustainable future – demand collective solutions.
If Japan opens its doors to more of these workers, the country and the world will benefit.
They must either explicitly renounce economic sovereignty or actively put it to use for the benefit of their citizens.
Second, there is nothing in the historical record to suggest that poor countries require very low or zero barriers in the advanced economies in order to benefit greatly from globalization.
With sufficient institutional imagination, the global trade regime can be reformed to the benefit of both.
The market develops according to its own logic, and capitalism implies an understanding of the market’s nature and of how society can benefit from the market.
Crucially, Polanyi warned that if the modern bourgeois order failed at this task, authoritarian and totalitarian political movements would benefit.
The challenge now before us is how best to realize newly available opportunities for human betterment, for the benefit of all.
The problem for Khamenei – and thus for those negotiating with Iran – is that there is scant benefit for him in success.
Moreover, US schools, particularly at the primary and secondary levels, continue to slip down the global scale, constraining Americans’ ability to benefit from globalization.
Furthermore, countries have to meet certain conditions to access the information – a structure that will not benefit most developing countries.
There is no question that Putin would benefit from the EU’s demise.
No one will benefit from a new Cold War.
Moreover, the currency depreciation in the wake of the Bank of Japan’s efforts to increase the annual inflation rate to 2% is expected to benefit exporters, though a substantial effect on the trade balance is yet to be seen, probably owing to higher import costs.
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