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Indeed, America’s culture and ideals set the bar for others, and its international
credibility
rested on its domestic arrangements.
The country has lost its
credibility
with the United Nations and in the Middle East; its claim to a permanent seat on the Security Council has just been trashed for good; and one really must fear the worst for Europe.
And economies – especially Europe – need to work actively to reform a tired system of multilateral governance that increasingly lacks
credibility.
Complacency was a central reason for the last economic paradigm’s loss of
credibility.
What is scarce is attention, which depends on
credibility
– and government propaganda is rarely credible.
The
credibility
of Europe’s national supervisory agencies has been irreparably damaged in recent years, owing to financial stress tests that gave clean bills of health to institutions – Laiki Bank of Cyprus and Bankia of Spain, among others – whose balance sheets were later found to have enormous holes.
But the
credibility
of all democratic regimes, not just India’s, is at stake in what unfolds in Myanmar.
Armed Anglo-American intervention, especially if it is not sanctioned by the United Nations, would do much to undermine liberals and democrats, who need all the
credibility
they can get.
Given the difficulty of regaining lost sovereignty and credibility, central banks must keep helicopter drops as a last resort.
What advanced-country central banks should be doing now is implementing monetary policies aimed at restoring their credibility, while governments focus on implementing effective fiscal policies and structural reforms.
Their
credibility
– not to mention the fate of the global economy – is on the line.
But the field’s
credibility
is also being undermined from within, by the growing prevalence of scientific misconduct – reflected in a recent spate of retracted scientific publications – and an increasingly unbalanced scientific workforce that faces perverse incentives.
Although the vast majority of scientists adhere to the highest standards of integrity, the corrosive effects of dishonest or irreproducible research on science’s
credibility
cannot be ignored.
This threatens to create a vicious cycle in which misconduct and sloppy research are rewarded, undermining both the scientific process and its
credibility.
Now, with perverse incentives undermining their
credibility
and hampering research, scientists must take matters into their own hands.
A third drawback is that when central banks are seen to give misleading assurances and to over-commit to certain outcomes, they risk losing their most important asset: their
credibility.
The Fed’s inability to anchor expectations would not only harm its
credibility
with investors, but would also make it much harder to fulfill its dual mandate of pursuing price stability and maximum employment.
Or it might mean that central-bank guidance was ineffective, jeopardizing the BoE’s
credibility.
Instead of taking scientific evidence as dogma, we should consider it as tentative information that should be ascribed a level of
credibility.
There is nothing wrong with disseminating scientific information that has a
credibility
of 10%, or even 1%.
But we should get used to understanding that some research findings have very low credibility, while others may be more likely to stand the test of time.
Scientists themselves may be able to ascribe these levels of
credibility
to their own work in fairness, if they describe in detail what they set out to do, and how they did it.
The government has done one thing right: it rebooted the National Institute of Statistics and Census, which had lost
credibility
after interventions by the previous administration.
Moreover, when economists adjust their message to fit their audience, the result is the opposite of what is intended: they rapidly lose
credibility.
The second reason progress has lost
credibility
is that the digital revolution risks undermining the middle class that formed the backbone of the post-war societies of the world’s advanced economies.
And our proximity to the eurozone, engulfed in a sovereign-debt crisis, meant that restoring fiscal
credibility
and preventing a spike in market interest rates was our most urgent priority.
But the belief that it can is essential to the
credibility
of the now-standard inflation targets.
On her return, Megawati restored her
credibility
by ordering the security services to act against these groups.
Putin can manipulate Ukraine not because there is a shred of
credibility
to his claim that the Russian minority there faces persecution, but because Ukraine’s corrupt democracy failed to build a truly self-sustaining nation.
This approach also lost
credibility
as a result of the rise of Hamas and its determination to wage permanent war on Israel;Iran’s expanding influence and nuclear weapons’ program; and the high – even rising – levels of hatred against Israel among Arabs and Muslims.
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