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The problem is that many policies advanced by technocrats as if they were Pareto efficient are in fact flawed and make many people--sometimes entire countries--worse off.
The Iraq war was an immense “project,” yet it now appears that the analysis of its benefits was greatly flawed and that of its costs virtually absent.
In my book European Spring, I argue that a flawed, technocratic EU needs bold leaders, political entrepreneurs, grassroots movements, and more experiments with deliberative democracy to deliver change.
Although President Obama has now delayed for some months when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner must issue his report, the very concept of “currency manipulation” itself is flawed: all governments take actions that directly or indirectly affect the exchange rate.
Instead of continuing to hope that bureaucratic intervention can repair flawed projects, officials should take a market-based approach, allowing losses to be allocated through the bankruptcy process, thereby enabling all stakeholders to move on to more productive activities.
In fact, the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact suffers at least as much from a flawed design as from lack of enforcement (it should never be forgotten that as late as 2007, Ireland and Spain looked like paragons of budgetary virtue).
And everyone knows that Europe’s much vaunted banking union is deeply flawed.
Its banking union may be flawed, but at least it exists, and over time those flaws can be fixed.
The stress tests may be flawed, but at least they are better than Europe’s two previous attempts.
When the World Cup began, you will recall, the Brazilian team was deemed talented but flawed.
The decision in April 2009 to raise the pandemic flu threat to the penultimate level, Phase 5 (“Pandemic Imminent”), already raced far ahead of the accumulated data, so the Phase 6 declaration in June revealed the organization’s paradigm to be fundamentally flawed.
Hiftar recognizes the problem with this approach – indeed, it spurred him to initiate the coup; but his proposed solution is equally flawed.
But Macri also pursued a flawed macroeconomic policy approach.
But his commentary in the Times on May 7, in which he cites three reasons why the UK should exit, is deeply flawed.
If we misdiagnose the problem with a flawed or rushed analysis, our response will be ineffective, and probably even counterproductive.
The reasons are well known: poor communication, a democratic deficit, finger pointing between member states and the Commission, a flawed institutional architecture.
The global banking system and economy was thus vulnerable to the mistakes of the three main rating agencies and their flawed risk models.
American leadership has obviously been a flawed enterprise, resulting in unnecessary wars, and the support of too many unsavory allies in the struggle with Communism.
But that is logically flawed: even with deflation, real purchasing power would fall, and the real value of debts would rise (debt deflation), as the real depreciation occurs.
But this reading is fundamentally flawed.
This view is seriously flawed.
The failure of that effort should come as no surprise, owing to its deeply flawed foundations.
Unger argues that all of today’s democracies “are flawed, low-energy democracies,” in which “no trauma” – in the form of economic ruin or military conflict – means “no transformation.”
The fundamentally flawed concept of deterrence has no place in Australia’s refugee policy.
The reason is simple: Our societies and economies are based on the flawed assumption that perpetual growth is possible on a finite planet.
As much as we all value the rise of new powers like China and India, it remains to be seen whether these countries will become as benevolent a power as America, however flawed, has been over the past half-century.
But this system, too, is badly flawed.
Likewise, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, a deeply flawed hybrid autocracy, is nonetheless a far better place to live than the Soviet Union was.
Reagan understood that, and it is one of the reasons he was a great and beloved president, even if some of his policies were flawed.
The new treaty reflects clear recognition that the euro’s initial design was flawed.
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