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There are various arcane technical debates surrounding the facts that Piketty has established over the past 15 years with his co-author Emmanuel Saez.
As Germany confronts ever more complex debates about its identity, the country’s elites will need to adopt this philosophy, and do more to encourage dialogue within an increasingly diverse population.
But there are plenty of people being left out of the debates.
Amid the debates about their future role, Europe’s universities must not lose sight of their individual identity, their traditions, and their sense of social purpose.
A second issue certain to dominate both parties’ nominating debates is Iran and the international negotiations to contain its nuclear program.
But now “secular stagnation” – the concept du jour in US policy debates since former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers argued last November that the US (and perhaps other advanced economies) has entered a long period of anemic GDP growth – may also be coming to Latin America.
Another reason why the environment should be at the center of economic debates is its role as the world’s single largest employer.
So debates about China should not be cast as a simple matter of right or wrong, but of when and how.
While staid TV pundits ask the usually vapid questions during presidential debates in the United States, candidates know that the really important thing is to get laughs on the comedy shows of David Letterman or Jay Leno.
In an ideal world, these choices would be the focus of electoral debates and parliamentary work.
Common Sense on Capital ControlsSANTIAGO – Few policy debates are stranger than the one concerning capital controls.
Such evidence fuels the moral debates about embryo research.
This is a good reason for leaving historical debates to writers, journalists, filmmakers, and historians.
But, as the recent United Nations Security Council debates on the Arab Spring have shown, it is not the major emerging countries that will influence events in the region.
Similarly, there were intense debates within the EU, culminating with the adoption of the ECB's Policy Position on Exchange Rate Issues Relating to the Acceding Countries.
A second area of consensus has emerged from frequent debates on the potential conflict between nominal and real economic convergence between the EU accession countries and the current member states.
The screening process forces applicant countries to take a long, hard look at how close they really are to meeting the accession requirements, thereby introducing a much-needed dose of realism into their debates about what needs to be done in the years ahead.
As a result, policy debates have shifted to arguments about what the recovery will look like: V-shaped (rapid return to potential growth), U-shaped (slow and anemic growth), or even W-shaped (a double-dip).
But one might conclude from the bizarre debates we engage in about climate change that what the world needs is a change in its political and psychological mood, rather than a profound social and economic transformation.
The China Threat, Part Two?Lost in the debates about whether the European Union should lift its arms export embargo on China is a much broader and more pressing question: does the Bush administration once again see China as a strategic competitor, as it did in the early days of the Bush presidency, before the war on terror forced Bush to seek cooperation with China’s rulers?
Russia Pulled East And WestMOSCOW: Interrelations between Russia and Asia;Russia's partial Asian heritage and geography: both incite longstanding debates within and without the country.
NEW YORK – Last month’s US government shutdown – the result of a partisan standoff in congressional budget negotiations – epitomizes the polarization that prevails in modern economic-policy debates.
Rather than allow extremists to continue to hijack economic-policy debates, policymakers must work to bridge competing schools of thought.
For that reason, the CCP continues to focus on upholding order and instilling values in all aspects of Chinese life, maintaining an active presence not only in policy debates, but also in private-sector activities and social affairs.
Too often, policy debates about law and order discussions are mired in partisan divisions.
But today, in Amman, as in almost every Arab capital, independent meetings and debates about how to move forward are taking place in art galleries, think tanks, salons, ordinary households, and, most significantly, online.
It is now being adopted by many other leaders, and quickly spilling over into new domains, including debates about reforming the European monetary and political system.
But for the aam aadmi – the common man in whose name every party claims to speak – these debates pale in significance beside the major steps taken to build a social safety net in a country where everyone had been expected to fend for himself.
They are comfortable with protracted uncertainty about who is right even in bitter debates, conceding gaps in their knowledge and granting legitimacy to opposing views.
After heated debates, we were prepared to pay what we saw as a very high price for the legalization of Solidarity as a movement.
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