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The city’s political leaders promise that this strategy for attaining carbon neutrality “provides an overall positive economic picture and will lead to economic benefits for Copenhageners” based on the expectation that prices for
conventional
energy sources like coal, oil, and gas will rise in the coming years.
The situation in the eurozone is particularly unstable, owing to citizens’ growing alienation from a distant, technocratic elite; the absence of
conventional
economic adjustment mechanisms (exchange rates, inflation, public investment, and so on); and tight limits on fiscal transfers, which send powerful signals about the real boundaries of cohesion.
With thousands of artillery tubes hidden in tunnels near the border, North Korea can threaten to wreak havoc on Seoul, South Korea’s nearby capital, by
conventional
means.
The US found this out in 1994 – long before North Korea had a nuclear weapon – when it planned a pre-emptive strike to destroy the North’s Yongbyon plutonium reprocessing plant, only to find that its allies in South Korea (and Japan) were deterred by the risk of
conventional
retaliation.
And, rather than reduce risks, it may embolden the North to return to risky
conventional
pressure on South Korea, such as in 2010, when it sank a South Korean corvette, killing 46 seamen, and shelled South Korean islands.
But it is a slant that merits attention, because the problem cannot be solved with the
conventional
policy responses.
Worse, however, the past three decades attest to the failure of
conventional
macroeconomics to guide policymakers in managing development.
But applying the static, linear, and closed analyses of
conventional
macroeconomics to open, non-linear, dynamic, and interconnected systems is bound to yield flawed results.
Likewise, a country’s prosperity can be measured properly only by including elements of moral philosophy and sociology, which fall outside of the boundaries of wealth creation and individual rationality that form the domain of
conventional
macroeconomic analysis.
Only a new approach could break the mold of
conventional
wisdom.
According to
conventional
wisdom, Hong Kong’s residents are apolitical – interested only in money, food, and entertainment.
What the EU has learned from the results of the last parliamentary elections in Bulgaria is that, contrary to
conventional
wisdom, the leverage of Brussels over new member states increases rather than diminishes after they join.
Their
conventional
wisdom is that “the system” – global governance structures ranging from the World Trade Organization and the G-20 to the major central banks – is badly broken and in desperate need of repair.
Former US National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft encapsulated the post-crisis
conventional
wisdom in 2012: “The postwar leaders set up the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade to develop rules of the road.
The
conventional
response – reducing interest rates – is impossible, because current short-term interest rates in the eurozone countries are already near zero or negative.
There are some who would urge that we all remain calm (good advice in most circumstances) and somehow take comfort in the fact that North Korea still faces many serious technical hurdles before it can successfully add nuclear weapons to its considerable
conventional
arsenal.
Back then, Kim Il-sung – the North’s founder – faced economic collapse, diminution of his
conventional
military forces, and diplomatic isolation.
Finally, I am urging progress in eliminating other weapons of mass destruction and limiting missiles, space weapons and
conventional
arms — all of which are needed for a nuclear-weapon-free world.
All of this is true, but, given the possibility of a major overhaul of US corporate taxation, which President Barack Obama has proposed, we should revisit the
conventional
wisdom concerning the supposedly weak connection between corporate taxation and the financial crisis.
This requires a weak currency and
conventional
and unconventional monetary policies to bring about the required depreciation.
A new vision of the US-India relationship would focus on global warming, the collapse of industrial agriculture, the widening gap between rich and poor, the
conventional
and nuclear arms race in Asia, and the intensification of ethnic and religious conflict.
Governments, according to the
conventional
wisdom, should aim for stable prices, with a slight bias toward inflation to stimulate the “animal spirits" of businessmen and shoppers.
But, as the Great Moderation metastasized into the Great Recession, fatal flaws in
conventional
thinking came to light.
And, according to new study, this “Machiavellian” tendency – which encompasses the intention and ability to use manipulative tactics, a cynical view of human nature, and a disregard for
conventional
morality – may manifest differently in men and women.
In India, in particular, the Pakistani military – which, despite being the world’s sixth largest, would have little chance of winning a
conventional
war against its giant neighbor – uses its terrorist proxies to wage a clandestine war.
The
conventional
“fundamental” explanation for that cycle relates it to political events.
At first, the Socialists and their allies seemed to have done rather well, by pulling ahead in 10 of the 21 regions, compared with seven where the
conventional
right were ahead, and four where the result was neck-and-neck.
But
conventional
geothermal power requires a natural source of large quantities of steam or hot water, and such sources are usually found only in volcanic regions, which rules out its use in large parts of the world.
Read More from "Germany versus the Euro?"Europe’s Contribution to Peace in SudanWASHINGTON, DC – Sudan sits at the proverbial crossroads between potential peace and possible nationwide conflict, which would undoubtedly become the world’s deadliest
conventional
war in 2011.
Establishing joint management and overhauling
conventional
defense capacities will be a two-pronged challenge: functional, owing to the traditional schema of defense organizations, and political, inasmuch as a cession of state sovereignty will be required.
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