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The consensus nowadays is that the US economy is growing steadily, with the leading indicators pointing toward further expansion, and labor-market data surpassing expectations.
They now accept political contributions from big business, and have accordingly adopting the language of common prosperity and “consensus politics,” leaving the many working people who do not share in that prosperity and consensus feeling disregarded and displaced.
When I was a member of the French government participating in a global tour to build consensus for climate action – an effort that eventually culminated in the Paris agreement – I experienced firsthand what American leadership can achieve.
The resulting political firestorm may well force Zuma to rely on core support from key allies within the country’s trade union movement and Communist Party, challenging the political elite’s pro-market consensus and provoking debate over the future of South Africa’s economic policy.
But Plan A is not working: its intended participants, most notably France, are rejecting it, and there is an emerging southern European consensus that austerity is not the solution.
Significant top-down political reform must meet two conditions: a strong, determined leader with an innovative new vision, and sufficient consensus among top officials on the goals of reform and how to achieve them.
As a result, no consensus is emerging on the direction and content of needed political reform.
The Survivalist in the KremlinWASHINGTON, DC – Vladimir Putin’s improbable rise to the pinnacle of Russian power in 1999-2000 was partly the result of an elite consensus about the importance of restoring order to the Russian state after a decade of domestic crisis and international humiliation.
Beyond that defensive attitude, lack of policy consensus has resulted in a preference for the status quo.
Thus, the consensus view that the global economy will soon bottom out has proven – once again – to be overly optimistic.
Her argument is, of course, a classic example of sour grapes; the entire point of a two-round voting system is to force parties and their supporters to seek a consensus and form partnerships.
Their statehood is weak, their leadership often weaker, and they lack the consensus about their European destiny that enabled difficult reforms in Poland, Slovakia, and the Baltic States to be pursued.
For starters, there remains a broad consensus across the developed and emerging economies on the desirability of maintaining a relatively open global economy.
Netanyahu threatens to upend Obama’s carefully constructed international consensus concerning sanctions and containment of Iran – a consensus that averts regional mayhem.
For today’s European leaders, the central lesson of 1989 is that force is counterproductive; what matters is consensus.
This lack of consensus on the nature of the problem arguably hinders agreement on a solution.
The institute’s director, Thomas R. Insel, cited DSM-5’s “lack of validity,” saying that its “diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure.”
Today, that consensus is clearly missing (whether it ever truly existed is dubious).
The lack of consensus on basic features of an economic framework – be it a retirement age commensurate with Europe’s demographic outlook or a legislative commitment to budgetary discipline – makes one wonder how eurozone countries could enter a monetary union in the first place.
For at least two decades, most investors accepted the consensus among economists and political scientists that the world was getting smaller and more integrated.
All this tinkering could be done because there was an extraordinary consensus in the UN Security Council on the need not to delay the trials.
There must be a renewed diplomatic push to build consensus – first among external powers, and then among the warring parties – on what Syria will look like in the future.
Yet there are a number of areas of consensus where the EU can push ahead.
The broad pro-European consensus of the past has been replaced by a resurgent nationalism.
There is really no consensus on whether Afghanistan is a “winnable” war, and whether the Bush administration’s “war on terror” set the West on a long-term course that may prove comparable in scale to the Cold War.
In both domestic and in international terms, Israel has not so much moved to the center as it has embraced a new type of national consensus that began to emerge in 2011.
The new consensus was best symbolized by the massive popular protests that erupted two months later, bringing together young, economically frustrated, mainly middle-class Israelis who might once have been politically divided by their allegiance to either the center-left Labor party or Netanyahu’s Likud.
Complacency Will Be Tested in 2018NEW HAVEN – After years of post-crisis despair, the broad consensus of forecasters is now quite upbeat about prospects for the global economy in 2018.
While I have great respect for the forecasting community and the collective wisdom of financial markets, I suspect that today’s consensus of complacency will be seriously tested in 2018.
In this context, it’s important to stress that the world economy may not be nearly as resilient as the consensus seems to believe – raising questions about whether it can withstand the challenges coming in 2018.
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