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Now is Our TimeNew York – Every September, the world’s leaders gather at the United Nations to reaffirm our founding Charter – our faith in fundamental principles of peace, justice, human rights, and equal opportunity for all.
But something more fundamental is at play: Brazil may finally be overcoming some of the deepest obstacles to its economic development, obstacles that held the country back for decades.
(Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig have pointed out that there are many misperceptions in this area; but, of these, misconstruing capital is surely the most fundamental.)
For, at the most fundamental level, what is at stake in Argentina is not merely the health of the economy, but the quality of its civil society.
Those for whom the rule of law and the enforcement of fundamental principles are serious matters – not just Germany – would soon object.
That is the fundamental lesson of an important new book, Imperfect Knowledge Economics: Exchange Rates and Risk, by Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg.
However, for China to succeed, higher investment in research and development, together with a fundamental overhaul of the educational system, is essential.
It is likely that Obama will consider a Palestinian state to be in America’s fundamental interest.
And yet the frequency of crises has also revived in Western countries an old, fundamental normative conflict between idealism and realism, or a value-based and an interest-based foreign policy.
So the nexus between values and interests is self-evident and renders the conflict over fundamental foreign-policy principles irrelevant.
A more fundamental point is that Russia in the 1990s evinced little concern about the expansion of European economic and security structures into the Soviet Union’s former satellites in Central and Eastern Europe, or even into newly independent former Soviet republics.
Another of Asia’s relative weaknesses comes from its poor record on innovation, a fundamental building block of prolonged economic dynamism.
Even when movements have near-universal support (which is not the case with the recent political movements in the US or India), there is a fundamental tension between democracy’s procedural and participatory aspects.
Even when investors accept the intellectual case for much higher bond yields, regulatory impositions on banks and pension funds, together with quantitative easing in Japan and Europe and other forms of financial repression, will ensure continuing demand for government bonds at prices far above any reasonable estimate of fundamental values.
In my work, expectations – or so-called animal spirits – are a new and independent fundamental that determines the steady-state unemployment rate.
And if animal spirits are indeed fundamental, it becomes important to understand the factors that determine swings in confidence.
The UN’s Crimes of OmissionCAIRO – When the United Nations was founded, its primary goals, as stated in its Charter’s preamble, included saving future generations from “the scourge of war” and reaffirming “faith in fundamental human rights.”
Building a Caring EconomyDAVOS – Today’s mainstream economic models are based on two fundamental assumptions: first, humans are essentially selfish actors who act rationally to advance their own utility – so-called homo economicus; but, second, as Adam Smith’s metaphor of an “invisible hand” was intended to suggest, self-regarding behavior can inadvertently advance the common good.
The policy has four fundamental flaws.
Indeed, the SDGs are the first development framework that recognizes a fundamental shift in our relationship with the planet.
This fundamental shift necessitates a new economic model.
But technological change may be a more fundamental factor – and one with consequences for all countries.
When the US intervened militarily in Iraq in 1991, the intention was to effect fundamental change in the entire region.
For Chinese firms, such a movement will have to be accompanied by a fundamental change in mentality.
Another fundamental shift to be expected from the rise of China’s Internet economy is that the most innovative and flexible – not necessarily the largest or most established – enterprises will be the most successful.
Facebook is the chief culprit: with an average of 1.32 billion daily active users, its impact is massive, yet the company refuses to give outside researchers access to the information needed to understand the most fundamental questions at the intersection of the Internet and politics.
Herein lies the second fundamental difference between 2014 and 1914: Europe is no longer the center of the world.
A fundamental principle of financial theory – “diversification” or “risk spreading” – implies that interest in the new contracts will be high.
The Lisbon Treaty offers a fundamental redesign of how the Union works, but, despite the pressing need to enhance EU institutions’ mobility and flexibility, it is still awaiting ratification.
This raises a fundamental criticism Europe’s trade defense mechanisms.
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