Explanation
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But the link between hours of work and market prices is almost non-existent in practice, which is why economists needed a different
explanation
for market prices.
A second
explanation
for low interest rates is a dearth of attractive investment projects.
Here, the only
explanation
still standing is the shift in the composition of activity away from capital-intensive forms of production, like manufacturing, to less capital-intensive activities, like services.
The more likely
explanation
for Trump’s betrayal of Putin is that his warm rhetoric was, like everything else that comes out of his mouth, driven by his desire for ratings, not any actual interest in – let alone commitment to – helping the Kremlin.
Otherwise, there is no
explanation
for the longevity of dictatorships such as Mubarak’s 30-year rule.
One simplistic
explanation
for the Yemen conflict is that it was engineered by Iran.
There is also a Machiavellian
explanation
for the replacement of Monti.
Before I get to my explanation, let me state the usual caveats.
Rudi provided a simple
explanation.
The conventional
explanation
– a reduced appetite for risk – is not convincing.
A more convincing
explanation
is that the current crisis, with its unknown dimensions and scope, has so clouded the economic landscape as to freeze market participants in their tracks, so to speak, until things clear up.
The second popular
explanation
of Putin’s shift is that he is irrational, and that Russia’s foreign policy is merely an extension of the fantasies of a man who stages stunts like leading Siberian white cranes along their migration route in a motorized hang glider.
A better
explanation
can be found by tracing the chronology of Russia’s foreign-policy shift, which began with the 2008 Georgia crisis.
But the most likely
explanation
is the simplest one: China was deliberately asserting its authority over the disputed border.
The assertion that money wages are downwardly rigid is not, in my view, a credible
explanation
of persistent unemployment.
Nor was it a credible
explanation
for Keynes, who asserted that his theory did not rely on the assumption of rigid wages.
But another
explanation
seems at least equally compelling: China’s domestic political tensions.
Three weeks earlier, the state-controlled newspaper Global Times offered a more plausible
explanation
for China’s failure to deliver the promised data to India: the data transfer had been intentionally halted, owing to India’s supposed infringement on Chinese territorial sovereignty in a dispute over the remote Himalayan region of Doklam.
After each crisis, an
explanation
emerges, which the next crisis shows to be wrong, or at least inadequate.
Then came East Asia, which had high savings rates, so the new
explanation
was “governance.”
I believe, however, that there is another
explanation
for these phenomena, which is based on rational calculation and information processing by institutions and traders.
If central banks are tightening and long-term rates aren’t rising, one needs some
explanation.
Now, a third
explanation
is gaining traction: declines in full-time work opportunities and real wages are both due to automation.
Some offer a straightforward explanation: China, along with other major emerging economies, has become ensnared in the dreaded “middle-income trap,” unable to break through to advanced-economy status.
Perhaps the deepest
explanation
for the Legion of Gloom’s strength is where they live.
There must be some
explanation
for China choosing this moment even for an unnecessary and ham-fisted row with the Vatican.
But the size of the “no” vote also reflected the persistent lack of a clear
explanation
by our politicians of what the EU brings to Europeans in terms of wealth, competitiveness, social welfare and, of course, peace.
But this
explanation
is only partly satisfying.
But there is an even more powerful
explanation
for this spate of attacks on children.
Bush’s partial
explanation
of the world food crisis, accurate as far as it went, brought the anger of India’s media and of many politicians down on his head.
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