Explanation
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Here lies the
explanation
of the interest-rate puzzle.
According to Summers, high savings caused weak growth; under the alternative
explanation
offered here, it was primarily rapid growth – and its distinctive features – that drove high savings.
The second
explanation
is that there is agreement on the goal but not on the means.
But, again, this is not an entirely convincing
explanation.
A deeper, more worrying
explanation
is that Europe does not have a strong desire for growth.
But, given that many IT entrepreneurs were young at the start of their careers, with limited ownership of stocks, a more refined
explanation
is needed.
One
explanation
is that the published balance-of-payments data, now only preliminary, will be revised.
None of the youths I talked to could give any clear
explanation
for their actions, except to say that an Islamic schoolteacher known as Ustadz So had recruited them into a shadowy militant movement.
The superficial
explanation
of the discrepancy between GDP growth and job gains attributes the gap to the restructuring of inefficient state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which caused public-sector employment to plummet, from 112.6 million to 67 million, from 1995 to 2004.
The underlying
explanation
lies in the culture and prejudices of France’s governing elite, the so-called grands commis formed by the National Civil Service School of which Hollande – like virtually all of his predecessors, except Nicolas Sarkozy – is an alumnus.
A third
explanation
is darker still: the rise of a newly violent tribalism.
One
explanation
is to view the intervention as a neo-colonial bid to protect a French preserve.
The second
explanation
is more credible: France, aside from Great Britain, is Europe’s only true military power.
Fully general frameworks, such as economists’ beloved Arrow-Debreu model of general equilibrium, are so broad and encompassing that they are totally unhelpful for real-world
explanation
or prediction.
But, as inevitable as simplification is for explanation, it is also a trap.
For the Long Peace, the most intriguing
explanation
– and, I think, the most persuasive, though many may disagree – is that since the end of World War II, a fundamental normative shift has occurred among the major powers’ policymakers.
But, once we place the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and the broader political phenomenon of international terrorism, in the context of other historical tragedies in the past century, religion becomes an unlikely
explanation.
One possible
explanation
is that China is a little drunk on its new great-power status.
But this may not be the best
explanation
for China’s behavior.
Part of the
explanation
for the ALP’s meltdown is the tension created by certain peculiarities of the Australian political system.
That move startled so many people in and out of the White House because it seemed to come out of nowhere, and there was no good
explanation
for it.
One likely
explanation
is that Macierewicz’s decimation of the officer corps has left Poland with an officer shortage.
As other commentators have pointed out, Macron’s “civilizational”
explanation
was also the kind of generalization that fails to recognize the existence of more than 50 countries, with diverse problems that cannot be described with a single adjective.
The true
explanation
is that, in the past few years, there has formed in Russia a critical mass of well-managed, market-oriented enterprises capable of normal production, with resources released from the inefficient Soviet-era public sector.
One partial
explanation
is that companies have subcontracted more services, so the share of direct employment in manufacturing may appear to have fallen, even though the number of jobs associated with a firm’s production might not have changed.
Another
explanation
for the momentum behind health-insurer mergers is lobbying.
There is thus a subtle but important difference between my debt-driven demand view and the neo-Keynesian
explanation
that deleveraging (saving by chastened borrowers) or debt overhang (the inability of debt-laden borrowers to spend) is responsible for slow post-crisis growth.
Future archaeologists would do well not to seek an
explanation
of this variation in terms of visible differences in our skeletal biology!
A more plausible
explanation
for improved market performance is waning pessimism.
Extensive public services and a comprehensive welfare state appear to be the indisputable
explanation.
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