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The Bank of England has presented QE as a purely monetary policy tool that sustains economic growth in the face of necessary and desirable fiscal consolidation.

This is not desirable for its own sake, as conservatives might argue, but rather for the additional scope that it creates for monetary policy.

For both sides, it is more desirable to let the adjustment take place through changes in nominal exchange rates, which would help contain deflation in the north and inflation in the south.

The most notorious chapter of The Prince, Chapter XVIII, which explains the circumstances in which it is permissible – and even desirable – for rulers to break promises, appears to argue that the most successful rulers think “little about keeping faith" and know “how cunningly to manipulate men's minds."

After more than a half-century of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, translating opportunity into reality will be difficult enough without introducing new requirements that, however desirable, are not essential.

The larger question raised by the UK’s proposed legislation is the desirable balance between individual rights, including the right to citizenship, and the public good.

But even if capital controls could still fully insulate a country from the forces of financial globalization, such a goal would not be desirable.

The Europeans wanted to achieve their goal through, among other means, further environmental protection and more social cohesion – desirable aims, but certainly not growth strategies.

But what made him public enemy number one for Putin was his desire to move Russia in a political direction that he viewed as positive and desirable.

Many of them will also be desirable: longer, healthier, and higher quality lives as we learn more about the details of human biology.

Indeed, it is far from clear that the UK is a good example of the sort of nation-state that many Europhobes claim is the most desirable form of political organization.

Achieving more aggressive environmental goals, particularly limiting warming to 1.5ºC, or zero greenhouse-gas emissions in the second half of the century, would of course be desirable in terms of minimizing the risk of disaster scenarios.

Friedman’s voice was a skeptical breath of fresh air at a time when the reigning viewpoint was a kind of smug pseudo-socialism that did not recognize the astounding power of markets to accomplish desirable aims.

Placing emphasis on governance also has the apparent virtue of helping to shift the focus of reform toward inherently desirable objectives.

Traditional recommendations like free trade, competitive exchange rates, and sound fiscal policy are worthwhile only to the extent that they achieve other desirable objectives, such as faster economic growth, lower poverty, and improved equity.

As desirable as the rule of law and similar reforms may be in the long run and for development in general, they rarely deserve priority as part of a growth strategy.

Unfortunately, the type of institutional reform promoted by, among others, the World Bank, IMF, and the World Trade Organization is biased toward a best-practice model, which presumes that a set of universally appropriate institutional arrangements can be determined and views convergence towards them as being inherently desirable.

In a world of limited resources, policymakers must prioritize their investments, including by differentiating the necessary from the desirable.

And why, then, is sustaining close ties to the US so desirable, while refusing to dismiss Russia as a partner is regarded as being an agent of the Kremlin?

A single language for scientific papers and conferences is clearly desirable, and the language of international science is English.

The answer is not to be found in drawing new maps, though once populations have shifted and political stability has been restored, recognition of new borders might prove both desirable and viable.

If they are to produce desirable outcomes, they will need to be embedded more deeply in – and regulated more effectively by – global institutions.

Monetary experts argued that an agreement on currency stabilization would be highly desirable, but that it required a prior agreement on the dismantling of trade barriers – all the high tariffs and quotas that had been introduced in the course of the depression.

That does not necessarily mean that it is desirable to run up the debt.

In such circumstances, restructuring is desirable, because it prevents the money injected by the IMF from simply going to pay off a country’s creditors, which in Ukraine’s case includes Russia.

And it would be short-sighted to hinder the catching-up process in Eastern Europe, given the consensus that extending the EU eastwards is a desirable aim.

For both reasons, a medium-term plan for some fiscal consolidation is desirable.

But central banks in both Europe and the US thought that a 2% annual inflation rate would be a desirable target (for the Europeans a desirable maximum).

If social capital is so important and desirable, why has it been in decline since the 1960s ?

It also spares us the attempt to stick all kinds of possibly desirable objectives into the definition, like equality in social as well as technical terms, a general theory of the actual process of "democratisation," or even a set of civic virtues of participation.

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