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Sympathy for GreenspanBERKELEY – In the circles in which I travel, there is near-universal consensus that America’s monetary authorities made three serious mistakes that contributed to and exacerbated the financial crisis.
This consensus is almost always qualified by declarations that the United States has been well served by its Federal Reserve chairmen since at least Paul Volcker’s tenure, and that those of us who have not sat in that seat know that we would have made worse mistakes.
The report also expressed the consensus view that governments and civil-society groups must move swiftly to “reconstruct destroyed or damaged education systems” whenever possible.
Beyond the Two-Degree TargetBERLIN – In international climate-policy circles, there is broad consensus regarding the target of limiting global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Moreover, there is no consensus on the need for better international institutions.
If it proves too difficult to reach agreement on a substantive equity principle, then an agreement that some carbon Gini coefficients are simply too extreme to be fair could form the basis of a minimum consensus.
The other concluded that the crisis highlighted just how wrong the consensus view had been, and recommended a new approach that considered divergent views.
Of course, some discussion of financial-sector reform is taking place in a variety of forums, with a gradual consensus building around sliding or incremental capital-adequacy rules.
To be sure, Germany is not fraying at the seams: social consensus remains a German secular faith and the Social Democrats have not found a plausible man to challenge Helmut Kohl.
The consensus forecast for US growth in 2013 is lower than for 2012, which is not a vote of confidence that they can.
Though Indian politics is hardly immune to the appeal of sectarianism, its people have come to accept the idea of India as one land embracing many differences of caste, creed, color, culture, cuisine, conviction, costume, and custom, yet still rallying around a democratic consensus.
The heart of that consensus is the simple principle that you don’t need to agree all the time – except on the ground rules about how you can disagree.
India has survived all the challenges that have beset it for 60 years because it has maintained a consensus on how to manage without consensus.
Instead, all Iraqis were allowed to participate in the process, and, though consensus was not ultimately reached, that, too, was a part of the democratization process.
In India, policy changes require political consensus within the ruling coalition, labor laws are strongly defended by unions and political parties, and controversial decisions can be challenged on the streets, in the courts, and ultimately at the polls.
But it does come, and once a policy consensus has been established, it tends to be durable.
Nevertheless, a consensus has developed internationally that yielding to such extortion costs even more lives.
Seven years ago, prior to the global financial crisis, the overwhelming consensus among economists was that, in retrospect, Japan’s expected convergence in productivity levels to America’s Pacific coast was not in the cards.
For starters, while it would likely cause the renminbi to strengthen, the consensus in China is that the current exchange rate is not far from the equilibrium level, meaning that the appreciation would likely be moderate.
Although no consensus has yet emerged on a code of ethics, there is wide agreement among scientists that a robust public health system is an essential safeguard against biological threats, whether intentional or unintentional.
When it comes to proposed solutions, however, no such consensus exists.
Today, there is a broad consensus that shock therapy, at least at the level of microeconomic reforms, failed, and that countries (Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia) that took the gradualist approach to privatization and the reconstruction of institutional infrastructure managed their transitions far better than those that tried to leapfrog into a laissez-faire economy.
Perhaps surprisingly, there is widespread consensus in the Arab Awakening countries that the private sector is central to sustained job creation and growth.
To be sure, large swaths of Venezuelan society rightly felt excluded from the country’s cozy elite consensus and insular governing arrangements, and resented it immensely; but an aspiring middle class comprised roughly half the population.
Unfortunately, good government is in limited supply, in part because there is no global consensus about what constitutes it – to the detriment of people from Cairo to California and beyond.
Multilateralism requires minimal consensus on global rules and norms among all major powers.
From insistence that the end of the Kim dynasty was approaching, consensus is emerging on the continued existence of their regime.
In the end, the decision on the quota system was settled by majority vote, rather than the usual – and much preferred – rule of consensus (though the majority was large, with only four of 28 countries opposed).
And issuing Eurobonds would require a degree of political consensus that will take months, if not years, to construct.
A fragile consensus for conciliation and an independent commission to investigate the facts opens a window for dialogue, but no one thinks the crisis has ended.
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