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The gains from avoiding the negative impact of
conventional
taxes work across the economy, particularly as the least well-off maintain a higher level of disposable household income.
Energy and carbon taxes can produce less economic pain and more gain than
conventional
taxes can.
Yet, contrary to
conventional
wisdom, this is not the beginning of the end of the postwar liberal order.
This is in marked contrast to the
conventional
view in the West that the prime motive for Islamist terrorism is religious.
Given anemic GDP growth, high unemployment, and low inflation, the wall of liquidity generated by
conventional
and unconventional monetary easing is driving up asset prices, starting with home prices.
Mrs Megawati's challenge is to keep these Islamic parties firmly within Indonesia's
conventional
political framework.
After all, South Korea’s
conventional
forces are far better trained, equipped, and motivated than their North Korean counterparts.
A US commitment not to attack North Korea with
conventional
or nuclear weapons was also included in the deal.
But, in the last decade, South Korea’s security environment has become increasingly complex, as traditional threats, scenarios, and contingencies linked to conventional, high-intensity warfare have converged with asymmetric and unconventional threats.
South Korea must prepare not only for a
conventional
scenario of all-out war, which would require responding quickly to a surprise attack by North Korea.
Would the US be willing to sell India offensive weapons – including high-precision
conventional
arms, anti-submarine systems, and long-range air- and sea-launched cruise missiles – that could help to deter Chinese military preemption?
The views of Cecil Rhodes, or Admiral Nelson, though fairly
conventional
in their time, are certainly no longer fashionable today.
Conventional
macroeconomists like me look at America’s current-account deficit, now running at 7% of GDP, and know that such vast deficits are inevitably followed by large currency depreciations.
Until the dust settles on the new Middle East, the old roadmaps seem dated, and
conventional
wisdom holds that progress toward a peace agreement in the face of regional upheaval is wishful thinking.
Nor is a
conventional
attack possible, as Israel has no common border with Iran and most of the American army is tied down in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In general, green accounting may end up being more biased than
conventional
GDP measures.
Israel’s
conventional
strategic wisdom was based on an equation of “Bushehr versus Yitzhar” – that is, a readiness to dismantle West Bank settlements if the Iranian centrifuges in Bushehr were dismantled.
Could the US now reverse course, and follow the newly emergent
conventional
wisdom?
Another bit of
conventional
wisdom is that creating the right incentive structure and securing the necessary know-how to run state-owned enterprises is very difficult.
Crises often refute
conventional
wisdom, and this one reveals that the underlying strength of the American economy remains impressive.
Conventional
legal aid is not always workable; it’s necessary to experiment with more flexible, context-responsive models.
Networks based on strong ties produce the power of loyalty, but may become cliques that re-circulate
conventional
wisdom.
In aviation, higher prices for
conventional
jet fuel would drive the rapid development of green alternatives.
If the global business elite is serious about action on climate change, it should advocate for an international agreement to impose a carbon price on
conventional
jet fuel, whether via an explicit tax or through a green-fuel mandate requiring a gradually rising proportion of zero-carbon bio or synthetic fuel.
Even though wind is free and coal must be paid for, the initial capital costs of a wind turbine and transmission cables are much higher than for
conventional
power plants.
According to this “law” – which is now
conventional
wisdom – industrialization is the only route to rapid economic development for developing countries.
In fact, such templates now extend beyond
conventional
trade issues (for example, agricultural protection) to vast numbers of areas unrelated to trade, including labor standards, environmental rules, policies on expropriation, and the ability to impose capital-account controls in financial crises.
But it can build robust
conventional
capabilities, including information systems to cope with the risk of cyber warfare.
Arguably, Japan is an exceptional case, with the constraint of the zero bound on nominal interest rates demanding, at long last, a deviation from
conventional
measures.
One hopes that Carney will follow this trend of challenging
conventional
wisdom at the BoE.
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