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China’s intervention in Sri Lanka, and its visibly mounting displeasure with the North Korean and Burmese regimes, suggests that this calculus has quietly become central to the government’s thinking.
NAFTA may not have been perfect, but under USMCA there is a different cost calculus for vehicles, which account for fully 3.7% of the items included in the US CPI.
But Bo apparently is not accepting his political demise as a final act – in his closing statement, he told the court that he wanted to keep his Party membership (he was expelled anyway) – and a comeback calculus may well have motivated his spirited performance.
The West should facilitate this change in his calculus.
That means that the principal bond of such an alliance is not a mere calculus of geopolitical interest, or of potential enemies, but something much deeper: solidarity.
Anyone who has studied the calculus of Newton and Leibnitz knows that disintegration is not the only antonym of integration.
In calculus the opposite of integration is differentiation.
While Chirac took a keen interest in world affairs, Sarkozy, by both inclination and political calculus, will concentrate, at least initially – and in the absence of a major international crisis – on internal matters.
The Arab street has changed the calculus of fear not only in the countries that have witnessed major protests, but also in the rest of the Arab world, where rulers are on notice that discontent need not remain submerged forever.
The build-up of public debt in industrial countries (which was rising briskly well before the Great Recession pushed it to near-unsustainable levels) reflects this kind of calculus.
Russia’s entry into the conflict has helped change that calculus.
According to the McCain campaign’s calculus, a political outsider with redneck views would appeal to white working-class voters.
Such shifts may emerge only slowly, but they can fundamentally change the calculus for pricing in risks and potential returns.
Political crises, however sensational they may be, are not likely to change investors’ economic calculus.
Keynes began to examine these questions with the calculus of compound interest and its spectacular outcome when applied to long periods.
But these are the benefits of high finance as they apply to the ideal world of economists – that is, a world of rational utilitarian actors who are skilled calculators of expected utility under uncertainty, who are masters of dynamic programming, and who breathe stochastic calculus in their daily life.
Britain’s latest welfare reforms will push many recipients into a similar calculus, given that many of the poor have had their support reduced.
But Kim’s calculus is different from that of most rulers.
However, new evidence may be altering the economic calculus.
Netanyahu is still stuck in the third season of “Homeland” – that is, obsessed with Iran – whereas Obama, having begun to include the renewed Russian threat in his strategic calculus, has already moved into the third season of “House of Cards.”
That calculus applies to governments, too.
Rumsfeld may understand this calculus in principle, but his words and actions show that he does not know how to balance the equation in practice.
The force of this political calculus has been charged by the dynamics of the electoral cycle in France, Germany and Britain.
America’s change in calculus is not the result of Europe getting its act together; it reflects the recognition that the threat posed by Russia cannot be left unchecked.
But the moral calculus becomes a bit more intricate when you cannot make good on all of your commitments and have to decide which to honor and which to avoid.
France’s shift is the result of both political calculus and deeply felt emotion.
By contrast, the trouble with using military force to punish is that necessity and proportionality cannot easily be applied to the calculus: a slap on the wrist would trivialize the gravity of the offense, while large-scale intervention would wreak death and destruction on many who are innocent.
Or cut taxes to change the marginal calculus of firms on layoffs and consumers on spending – for example, by suspending the payroll tax on firms and workers for a year or suspending part or all of the sales tax or national value-added tax.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is undoubtedly operating according to a different political calculus than the Soviets, and the strategic situation on the Korean Peninsula is even more daunting than in Cuba.
The answer probably stems from a combination of – or rather, a changing calculus around – business interests and values.
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