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But addressing the issue of plastic consumption still requires far-reaching behavioral change.
With investment unlikely to become a motor for the German economy, consumption holds the key to stronger demand growth in Germany.
On the demand side, it should be driven more by domestic consumption, rather than investment (especially in real estate) and exports.
Compounding the challenge confronting China is the fact that the economy’s major demand-side driver, real-estate investment, is declining more rapidly than the alternative source of demand, domestic consumption, is rising.
One way to get things moving, especially in the agricultural sector, would be to remove or redirect subsidies that encourage excessive consumption of fertilizers, water, or energy in food production.
A big decline in the market could work to depress consumption and investment spending, reducing income all around.
And science predicts that, unless we severely constrain consumption of oil and coal around the world, the climate will continue to warm, increasing ocean volume and melting huge amounts of ice in the Arctic and Antarctic – thereby causing disastrous rises in sea level.
Unfortunately, this focus on savings distorts understanding and distracts from the real challenge of creating mass consumption markets in developing countries.
Within national income accounts, trade deficits represent the excess of a country’s consumption over production.
Developing countries need to grow, but nowadays it is easier to acquire capacity and grow through FDI than it is to develop domestic mass consumption markets.
Tortuous claims that saving is merely the flip side of consumption and investment spending are the economic equivalent of Humpty Dumpty’s argument in Through the Looking Glass : “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.”
The families benefiting from their remittances will now be forced to cut their consumption as well.
But, as the recent study on fishing catches underscores, we often lack the accurate data needed to determine what level of consumption is sustainable.
In the meantime, consumption of the oceans’ resources continues to surge.
Only an inclusive international forum, in which complex ideas can be shared and debated, is likely to prove adequate to the task of navigating the new era of energy use, production, and consumption.
In many energy-exporting countries, domestic consumption is rising steeply.
BP predicts that in the Middle East, with its extensive fossil-fuel reserves, primary energy consumption will grow 77% by 2035.
This implies that consumption growth will remain muted for some time.
If Chinese imports were blocked, prices would rise, undermining consumption, impeding economic growth, and exacerbating inequality.
China is one of the biggest purchasers of US Treasuries, and continues to finance US consumption and investment.
The move symbolically rejected what the incoming government abandoned upon assuming office: Gandhi’s vision of an equitable and sustainable agrarian society based on self-sufficient, pared-down consumption.
For Gandhi, the spinning wheel symbolized the need to assume personal responsibility for consumption as a first step toward achieving justice and freedom for all.
A tax cut to low-income individuals or increased unemployment benefits would have provided far more stimulus to consumption, just as a temporary investment tax credit would have boosted capital spending far more than reducing taxes on dividends did.
He could, and should, have pushed for strong energy conservation measures; had he done so four years ago, America's consumption - and oil prices - would be lower today.
But the real source of US trade deficits is macroeconomic imbalances in the US economy, such as excessive household consumption and fiscal deficits – imbalances that tariffs will do very little to address.
Finally, Asian economies should strengthen their domestic growth engines, including consumption and investment, thereby reducing their reliance on external markets.
Nearly 50 years ago, a statistically minded historian of science, Derek de Solla Price, observed that the best indicator of academic research production is a nation’s energy consumption per capita: both grow together.
The generalized version of this proposition is that secular stagnation – the persistent underuse of potential resources – is the fate of all economies that rely on private investment to fill the gap between income and consumption.
The challenge then would be to convert capital abundance into more leisure and balanced consumption.
Russians pay for this consumption from the profits of gas and oil.
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