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Although multilateralism is a slow and often painful process of cultivating consensus, some issues are so large that they transcend any one country.
The University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers cheered the consensus in his New York Times blog.
This consensus about so many important issues contrasts rather starkly with the general perception that economists rarely agree on anything.
On these and many other issues, economists tend to be good at seeing both sides of the issue, and I suspect that a survey on such questions would reveal little consensus.
A consensus among economists can arise for both good and bad reasons.
Sometimes a consensus is innocuous enough, as when you hear economists argue that one ignores the role of incentives at one’s peril.
But when a consensus forms around the universal applicability of a specific model, the critical assumptions of which are likely to be violated in many settings, we have a problem.
When that happens, a consensus is certainly not something to cheer about.
First, there are errors of omission – cases in which blind spots in the consensus prevent economists from being able to see troubles looming ahead.
Together with the liberal bloc, Germany can block Council decisions, which enables it to exploit differences between the UK and France and gives it a key role in building consensus.
Generals, diplomats, national-security officials, and development professionals are approaching a consensus in favor of a no-fly “safe zone” along one of Syria’s borders.
Achieving these goals does not depend on (further) technical discussions, but on forging a new political consensus in favor of a more supranational approach.
But East Asia’s wide variety of political systems makes such a democratic consensus highly unlikely, at least for now.
Second, he and his administration were so busy trying to build consensus that they watered down some of the vital ingredients of the stimulus package, and failed to defend it robustly from Republican attack.
So my own hope is that Obama will not be dissuaded from trying to work with his opponents, to build consensus, and to deal courteously even with those whose views he may thoroughly dislike.
Her calm and balanced hand nurtured broad consensus among a Federal Reserve Board characterized by divergent economic philosophies, and she navigated the economy through a slow recovery in a period when fiscal policy was unnecessarily constrained, as duplicitous Republicans hyped the dangers of deficits.
The consensus beyond Wall Street is that Dodd-Frank didn’t go far enough.
With Palestinians unable to agree among themselves on a minimal national consensus, how can peace be established between them and Israel?
President Kim's most daunting task will be to forge a domestic consensus and governing coalition to support the IMF deal.
As historical scholarship documenting the crimes of the Nazi regime continued to pile up in the 1980s and 1990s, the German political establishment reached a consensus that the country’s historic guilt and responsibility must be a central part of its national story.
Despite these difficulties, there is an emerging consensus on the need to restructure European defense.
In short, if Jokowi is to form a national consensus on the institutions that Indonesia needs, he will have to reach across this political divide.
There is an emerging consensus on the need to address under-nutrition worldwide.
Iran is a country with a turbulent past, beset by ongoing political crisis, and lacking a broad consensus on the way forward at home and its regional and global role.
The country’s failure to realize its potential attests to the absence of a political consensus on modernization.
For example, on climate change, immigration, and development aid, there is growing consensus, as there is on energy policy and the further development of the European Security Strategy.
Everything from NATO to the consensus on climate change appears to be coming apart at the seams.
And, despite a growing consensus about the systemic nature of the challenges affecting education, there is less agreement about how to address those systemic challenges.
But that stability is now disappearing fast--along with the fundamental consensus on which it rested.
In Europe, meanwhile, the consensus was embodied in the European Union's Growth and Stability Pact and made operational in the rigid Maastricht criteria that capped government budget deficits at 3% of GDP.
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