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Their members kowtow to CEOs, do not examine management decisions closely, and, with very few exceptions, rubber-stamp compensation requests.
As Ukraine’s ongoing crisis has demonstrated yet again, former Soviet republics that attempt to make geopolitical decisions without the Kremlin’s assent do not remain intact for long.
They neglect the public-policy decisions regarding energy systems and infrastructure (as well as the targeted R&D to promote new technologies) that are needed to unleash smart, environmentally sustainable public and private investment spending.
Social Choice and Social WelfareCAMBRIDGE – Human beings have always lived in groups, and their individual lives have invariably depended on group decisions.
So, for both ethical and practical reasons, social scientists have long investigated how the concerns of a society’s members can be reflected in one way or another in its collective decisions, even if the society is not fully democratic.
Arrow’s theorem shows that even very mild conditions of reasonableness in arriving at social decisions on the basis of simple preference rankings of a society’s individuals could not be simultaneously satisfied by any procedure.
Under what circumstances would majority rule yield unambiguous and consistent decisions?
Furthermore, the understanding generated by social choice theorists’ study of group decisions has helped some research that is not directly a part of social choice theory – for example, on the forms and consequences of gender inequality, or on the causation and prevention of famines.
A few days after Wen's interview, while commenting on recent developments in Taiwan with Premier Wen at his side, US President George W. Bush said that America opposed "any unilateral decision to change the status quo, and the comments and actions made by the leader of Taiwan indicate that he may be willing to make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo, which we oppose."
But it is individual training and the ability to make split-second decisions in a fluid situation that are required in anti-terrorist operations.
The decisions that we take on defense today will have a profound impact on our children’s security tomorrow.
This means that decision-makers, on both sides of the Atlantic, should always take into account the effect of their decisions (and of their language) on the relationship.
Because all countries are members, the UN enjoys a global standing that gives its decisions and actions a degree of authority that no individual government enjoys beyond its own borders.
Greening China’s Financial SystemBEIJING – China’s establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has intensified debate about whether a new generation of development banks, led by emerging countries, is needed to ensure that financing decisions account adequately for principles of environmentally sustainable growth.
Among Hong Kong's public, there is a pervasive feeling that it has changed for the worse since 1997 -- not as a result of overweening interference from Beijing, but due to worrisome decisions made by local rulers.
President Jiang and China's rulers have had very little, if anything, to do with any of these decisions.
Such outcomes are the result not just of inevitable structural shifts, but also of decisions about how to handle those shifts.
These decisions played a major role in enabling a new wave of globalization, which increasingly diffused growth and wealth across countries, but also laid the groundwork for the concentration of income and wealth within countries.
Moreover, the brake that the functional constituencies can put on legislation should be scrapped, leaving decisions to a simple majority.
If half the population doesn’t have a say in political decisions, the legitimacy of policymaking suffers.
The decisions that must be taken in response to these developments – those related to the nature of the world or those we have created ourselves – require as much accurate information as possible.
But Trump’s willingness to abide by the US Constitution and Supreme Court decisions is far from certain.
The West on the BrinkBERLIN – This year and next, voters in leading Western democracies will make decisions that could fundamentally change the West – and the world – as we have known it for decades.
In fact, some of these decisions have already been made, the main example being the United Kingdom’s vote in June to leave the European Union.
The reckless decisions underlying such losses are not just a private matter playing out in a domain of willing buyers and sellers.
The success of specialist fund-management firms, such as Generation Investment Management, shows that disciplined integration of sustainability into investment decisions yields positive results.
Nor can it be a reason to give failing businesses a safety net for their own bad behavior or poor decisions.
Because China is now the world’s largest exporter after the European Union, and accounts for about half of global growth, decisions taken in Beijing could have a more important impact on the world economy than those taken in Berlin, Brussels, or Washington, DC.
Yet judgments about literary or artistic merit should not be the basis for decisions about freedom of expression.
After millions of years of evolution, humans have developed a capacity for contextual intuition that enables trained doctors to make sensible and timely decisions in uncertain, data-scarce environments.
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