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This is why a key Confucian principle holds that one cannot rule the state without exercising discipline over oneself.
In Latin America, with little market and policy discipline and chronically overvalued exchange rates, that transition seldom happened.
What is particularly missing in Romania is party discipline, which undergirds the workings of a parliamentary democracy.
All of this implies a discipline on costs in a sluggish economy and a potential accelerant in an overheated one.
While over-generalizations are risky, these other important trading partners have relatively larger pools of lower-wage workers to draw upon and discipline costs along the global value chain.
A second positive sign is the recognition that not all crises are rooted in a lack of fiscal discipline; it is now agreed that financial and macroeconomic stability also matter.
For this reason, it is to be feared that the governance model will soon require reform, and that the EU will have to decide where to rely more on reformed national frameworks (for example, for budgetary discipline) and where to allocate more responsibility to the European Union (for example, for banking supervision).
So, even if the eurozone’s structure is modified to achieve the desired level of fiscal discipline and balance, in its current highly decentralized structure, countries will continue to diverge in other important respects.
In such circumstances, the expectation of future profits can exert a stronger discipline on the public authority than fear of legal sanction.
Moreover, any notion of party discipline and loyalty collapsed years ago, as the number of committed Conservative supporters dwindled.
Official corruption, insecure property rights, stifling regulatory restraints, weak payment discipline, poor logistics and distribution, widespread counterfeiting, and vulnerability to other forms of intellectual-property theft: all of these obstacles increase transaction costs and make it difficult for entrepreneurs to thrive in domestic markets.
What is needed, though, is a collective agreement on fiscal discipline, and a revival of the Stability and Growth Pact, which was unwisely abandoned – ironically when the French and Germans found its rules too constraining.
Europe does not need the French plan for coordination of tax policies, or another IMF, but there does need to be fiscal discipline to prevent other countries from free riding, as the Greeks seem to have done.
Fiscal discipline does not sound as visionary as “economic government.”
The tools and methods of the discipline are not adequate to deal systematically with coercion as a way of acquiring and maximizing wealth.
Depending on the discipline, anywhere from 24% to 80% of scientists and engineers employed in the US are foreign-born.
But the EU’s critics do not like the idea of coordinated foreign policies any more than they liked the idea of fiscal and monetary discipline being imposed in the middle of a recession.
Economics is a vast discipline that comprises researchers and practitioners whose work spans macro and micro perspectives and theoretical and applied approaches.
Like any other intellectual discipline, it produces excellent, good, and mediocre output.
They reflect the fact that their discipline comprises a diverse collection of models, and that matching reality to model is an imperfect science with a lot of room for error.
The irony here is that the Euro played an enormous part, directly and indirectly, in moving Britain, like other EU members, in the direction of free markets and fiscal discipline.
Seen from this perspective, Europe and Japan should trounce the US because of their far superior basic education systems, and Japanese discipline make Europeans look lazy.
Are they missing the only opportunity we have to discipline the banks and force them to compete for responsible risk-taking?
Investment managers have a moral and professional responsibility to play their role in bringing some discipline into the banking system.
The move to fiscal discipline coincided with the onset of a recession, probably made the downturn worse than it otherwise would have been, and slowed the subsequent recovery.
Above all, the IMF needs someone who does not look for yet more statism which only makes crises bigger, but rather for a withdrawal from bailouts and therefore a return of market discipline.
But it is America that is leading the attack on fiscal discipline.
Ukraine needs the discipline of the accession process – and thus the promise of EU membership – if reforms are to be implemented effectively.
As long as those structures manage to keep new entrants out, market discipline will be suppressed and the consumer will suffer.
But his thinking was influenced just as much by oddly nostalgic memories of British colonial discipline and a somewhat self-serving take on Confucianism, stressing obedience to authority, while disregarding the equally Confucian right to dissent.
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