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As Greenspan notes, it was the dot-com boom of the 1990’s that “finally gave broad currency to Schumpeter’s idea of creative destruction.”
It is impossible to imagine a continuous gale of creative
destruction
taking place except in a context of boom and bust.
Like his contemporary, Schumpeter, Robertson regarded these boom-bust cycles, which involved both the creation of new capital and the
destruction
of old capital, as inseparable from progress.
Israel will defend itself if Iran continues to call for its
destruction.
These include democracy and the rule of law, respect for human rights and the environment, non-proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction
and their means of delivery, and the campaign against terrorism.
In Serbia, from where so much of the region’s
destruction
was planned, Boris Tadic’s government is seeking tighter links with the EU.
After World War II, when the world was divided into nuclear-armed camps threatening each other with mutual destruction, Russell did not take the view that our insignificance, when considered against the vastness of the universe, meant that the end of life on Earth did not matter.
It is not sustainable for the people of Smolensk oblast to live under constitutional democracy, while the citizens of Grozny and Sukhumi are the victims of wanton shelling and
destruction.
Massive wealth destruction, combined with global financial chaos, would pose a challenge to monetary policymakers worldwide.
Well before the
destruction
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the USAAF, under the command of General Curtis LeMay, managed to burn every major Japanese city to a cinder with fire bombs.
And the Palestinians, whether they are ruled by Hamas or not, will not stop fighting Israel, especially in Gaza, where wholesale
destruction
has left them with nothing much more to lose.
Japanese policymakers and business leaders do not understand the concept of "creative destruction."
The Dutch central banker Gerard Vissering resigned and eventually killed himself as a result of the
destruction
wrought on his institution’s balance sheet by the pound’s collapse.
And we can act because those who are responsible for this carnage, for these war crimes, for an urbicide in which probable crimes against humanity are compounded by the
destruction
of sites of memory and culture that counted among the world’s vital heritage, are not hiding.
Not long after the
destruction
of Hiroshima, President Harry S. Truman, together with the Canadian and UK prime ministers, proposed the first non-proliferation plan; all nuclear weapons would be eliminated, and nuclear technology for peaceful purposes would be shared and overseen by a United Nations agency.
With Louisiana’s ability to protect itself weakened and the center of disaster relief badly undermined, an inadequate government response and unnecessary
destruction
were almost inevitable – with the poor paying the price.
So far, civil society has been mobilized for the
destruction
of international institutions as in the recent protests against the WTO and World Bank in Seattle and Washington.
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, financial institutions appear both as dangerous weapons of mass economic destruction, but also as potential instruments for the application of national power.
Putin’s return to the Kremlin, although painful, could end up curtailing their agony by triggering the regime’s
destruction.
That, too, is not surprising, because the situation remains an amorphous mix of hope and
destruction.
If the negotiations so far had recognized this and been conducted with more tenacity, the conflict in Syria could have been resolved long ago, averting much death and
destruction.
Yet again, billions of dollars are spent on bombing and
destruction
in the region, while virtually nothing is done about the growing water crisis.
What it wants is the
destruction
of the “apostate” Shia community’s members and shrines.
In his newly diminished state, Saddam continued to obsess over Iran and hint at his own weapons of mass
destruction.
His Strategic Defense Initiative, intended to end the nuclear-deterrence strategy known as “mutual assured destruction,” was actually nicknamed “Star Wars.”
Fortunately, such efforts have usually been too small in magnitude to do significant economic
destruction.
Beneath even the richest soil, Dangerfield wrote, may lie the most perilous residue of discord and
destruction.
The American character prefers displacement to destruction, the win-win to the zero-sum.
Yousef seethed with resentment about the discovery of his “Bojinka” (explosives) cell in Manila the month before and vowed:We will take the harshest of measures in order that all Filipino interests inside and outside the Philippines will be subject to destruction....Our measures will include assassinating prominent figures, foremost among them the Filipino President (RAMOS)....We also have the ability to use chemicals and poisonous gas against vital institutions, residential populations, and drinking water sources...
But a fine line separates it from the “creative destruction” that is essential to purge a post-crisis system of its excesses.
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