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To be sure, the ECB’s
definition
of price stability was not a problem during the period between the global financial crisis and the adoption of quantitative easing, when inflation was well below 2%.
The American philosopher John Rawls offered the classic
definition
of civil disobedience in the early 1970s.
The most common
definition
of an oligarch is a person whose wealth depends on political connections – particularly to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Given this, Western governments need a more nuanced
definition
that distinguishes “bad” oligarchs from the rest.
Such a
definition
should include, first and foremost, direct and current involvement with the Kremlin leadership in business and personal deals, including large, politically sensitive government contracts.
Even more important, the West should make it clear that it extends its
definition
of Europe not just to Russia’s borders, but across them.
Based on this new story, deniers then argue that the crime does not fit the legal
definition
of genocide in international conventions.
But some felt that if the
definition
of IT were stretched too far, it would lose its meaning.
Circumcision has increasingly come under fire in Europe, because the
definition
of human rights has expanded to include children’s bodily integrity, while the
definition
of religious freedom has narrowed to include primarily worship and association.
As the United States has historically shown, tolerance means upholding a broader
definition
of people’s right to practice religion, or otherwise express their cultural identity, according to their beliefs, while withholding judgment on whether such beliefs are “right” or “wrong.”
In repressive societies, good literature is by
definition
subversive.
To tackle insufficient supply from the dead, we first embraced an increasingly inclusive, and at any rate flexible,
definition
of death.
One reason these phrases gain wide acceptance is their lack of clear
definition.
If we accept the above
definition
of the West as a mindset, this leaves open three major questions: can the East be modernized without being Westernized?
In the second edition of my book Irrational Exuberance, I tried to give a better
definition
of a bubble.
Implicit in this
definition
is a suggestion about why it is so difficult for “smart money” to profit by betting against bubbles: the psychological contagion promotes a mindset that justifies the price increases, so that participation in the bubble might be called almost rational.
By definition, this target would be country-specific.
We can, however, be less certain about the shadow banking sector, almost by
definition.
That is, Korans were burned at a US facility that meets the dictionary
definition
of a concentration camp.
It is easy to imagine each social group demanding a larger share of national income, which by
definition
is inflationary.
Our research examining US tax debates over the last 200 years suggests another reason: People can agree that taxation should be fair, but disagree fundamentally about the
definition
of “fair.”
But the
definition
of FDI protectionism can become more complicated, because measures taken in the interest of legitimate public policy objectives – for example, protecting national security or increasing FDI’s contribution to the host economy – are not necessarily instances of it, even if they make the foreign-investment climate less hospitable.
The effectiveness of deterrence is difficult to prove: by definition, nothing happens when it works; if a country is deterred from attacking, it is a non-event.
But, just as the eurozone’s struggling economies have an overvalued currency, Germany has an undervalued one, which tends to produce external surpluses and, by definition, an excess of savings over investment.
The
definition
of what constitutes child abuse varies by culture; but about 15% of children suffer each month from what the UN calls severe physical punishment.
The alternative is to overcome past divisions by forging a new, more inclusive
definition
of “us,” one that acknowledges the potential contribution of the knowhow that exists, in the heads where it exists, and ensures that it can flow to a broader segment of society over time.
To develop these markets, companies will need talented people, from ethnographers (to understand consumers’ customs and preferences) to engineers (to design products that fit a new
definition
of value).
And, by definition, it would work only if the trust is funded on a public basis.
In a sense, this is the
definition
of true leadership: to take a country and its people to a better future which is not yet clear to most but that has been partly discovered and partly created by those in power who hold an unerring sense of direction.
So this task, the
definition
of justice and social needs, is a task that has to be accomplished by the legal system, by law and government, and in doing so you harness the freedom of the market, but you do not eliminate it.
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