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There is a role for government, not only in correcting market failures, but in redressing these asymmetries of power.
But these leaders’ failures run even deeper.
The West’s failures then should not undermine its resolve now to work to create democratic states respecting human rights and international law.
The American public does, eventually, recognize the successes and failures of their leaders.
With the world’s most successful democracies obsessed with recent failures, international politics has drifted toward more dangerous potential outcomes.
Friedman and Schwartz are generally seen as reproving the Fed for failing to react swiftly to successive waves of bank failures, first in late 1930 and then again in 1931 and 1933.
But a close reading reveals that the authors reserve their most scathing criticism for the Fed’s failure to initiate a concerted program of security purchases in the first half of 1930 in order to prevent those bank failures.
The fact that the Greek debt overhang was acknowledged only after negotiations had collapsed exposes the deep systemic failures that have brought Greece and Europe to this point.
One of the normal roles of a central bank is to be a “lender of last resort” when bank failures threaten to destabilize the banking system and the economy.
As a result, “banks should become more resilient and financially stable,” the consequences of which “should be seen in fewer bank failures and more consistent credit provision.”
Excessive rural credit was one of the important causes of bank failures during the Great Depression.
And the “Internet of things” will rationalize production processes by detecting potential failures early, boost crop yields by measuring the moisture of fields, and dramatically reduce the cost of remotely monitoring patients’ health.
At least the International Monetary Fund has owned up to these intellectual and policy failures.
In southern Ghana, for example, farmers have managed to reduce crop failures arising from rainfall variability and unpredictability by cultivating several drought-tolerant types of the same crop species.
These problems are aggravated by coordination failures.
Like today’s leaders, they would often ride to power on a wave of public anger against the perceived failures of democracy – failures that they had no intention of fixing.
In fact, the combination of freedom of expression and electoral competition is the key to improving democracies, because it enables systemic failures – not to mention leaders’ missteps – to be subjected to public scrutiny.
That firewall, together with press censorship, enables China’s leaders to conceal their failures and highlight their achievements, however dubious.
The sessions resulted in stories that highlighted mistreatment of women and children and the failures of government agencies to deliver promised services.
The Taliban have exploited the failures of the international community in extremely effective anti-Western propaganda that has fueled significant doubt in the minds of the public concerning the reasons justifying the international presence in Afghanistan.
Although these failures are found primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East, the interesting thing about East Asia is that it contains both remarkable success stories and abject failures.
The big difference between Asia's successes and failures is that some countries engaged in globalization, and others closed their doors tight.
Governance failures, ranging from corruption to inefficient implementation of reforms, also pose a serious challenge, as do social and political tensions (and, in some areas, the threat of terrorism).
Western medicine starts from the view that human illness and death are failures to be combated.
Yet, so far, none of these events – aside from Japan starting in the early 1990’s and the failures of transition in the lands east of Poland – has caused a prolonged crisis.
If the world economy is to recover, the diplomatic failures and name-calling must end.
There is no overarching explanation for Obama’s successive Middle East failures, but there are a few factors worth considering: the increase in the number of asymmetrical conflicts, in which the traditional use of force is largely ineffective; increasingly blurred lines between difficult allies and intransigent adversaries; and major political differences between a centrist US president and a Congress that is dominated more than ever by extreme ideas.
Virtuous though democracy is – and as Tunisia has shown, it is far better than the alternative – we should remember the failures of those who claim its mantle, and that there is more to true democracy than periodic elections, even when they are conducted fairly.
Above all, their realism about the bilateral relationship and its possibilities will be essential, because Europe’s most powerful asset has never been a detailed vision of the future, but rather its collective willingness to improve upon past failures.
The discontent fueled by these failures is a major potential cause of unrest.
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