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An obvious example is the Jim Crow South, where white legislatures passed laws imposing racial segregation and reversing many of the gains of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period.
But throughout that process, productivity gains have been reinvested to create new innovations, jobs, and industries, driving economic growth as older, less productive jobs are replaced with more advanced occupations.
Finally, it is imperative that we reinvest AI-driven productivity gains in as many economic sectors as possible.
But without a strong local AI ecosystem, today’s productivity gains may not be reinvested in a way that fuels spending and boosts demand for labor.
Three Paths for Indebted DemocraciesCHICAGO – Democratic governments are not incentivized to take decisions that have short-term costs but produce long-term gains, the typical pattern for any investment.
Still, relative to Africa’s massive energy needs, these are modest gains.
A country that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty over the last two decades must now find a way to safeguard and gradually increase those gains while engineering the same miracle for the hundreds of millions still left behind.
In their excellent book The Internationalists, Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro describe how the idealistic 1928 Briand-Kellogg Pact and its successors dramatically reduced wars of conquest, not by confronting aggressors militarily but by denying them recognition of sovereignty over their ill-gotten gains.
But official data on monthly job losses and gains reveal an obvious V-shape here, too: as the graph below shows, the end of the free-fall for private-sector employment came precisely when Obama was inaugurated.
But the cost of producing shale will now rise again, because such significant efficiency gains are not sustainable and the cost of capital is high.
Fairness, openness, and transparency are vital to enable both sides to appraise the prospective gains accurately and efficiently, not to mention to allow the private sector and other parties to contribute innovative solutions.
The stock market’s performance is legendary, with capital gains totaling 7 trillion dollars since the start of 1996.
Similarly, the marked gains made by far-right political parties in the just-completed European Parliament election were no great shock.
But, though great strides are being made in reducing maternal deaths in poor countries, those gains could be undone by a growing threat to women’s health.
For example, the scam known as “pump and dump,” which netted Belfort and his fellow Strattonites their ill-gotten gains, comes into much clearer view in the memoir than it does in the film.
More broadly, increases in the supply of weapons funneled to rebel forces by Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and others have correlated with surges in the civilian death toll, suggesting that they cost more lives than they save – and with no evident strategic gains.
The remaining gains would come from people working more hours – the time they would have spent traveling to bank branches and waiting in queues.
Government tolerance of bribery and racketeering enabled opponents to say the "mafia" was grabbing the gains of economic change.
The overwhelming evidence is that the lion’s share of productivity gains in the last 30 years has gone to the very rich.
And that’s not all: 40% of the gains of quantitative easing in the United Kingdom have gone to the richest 5% of households, not because they were more productive, but because the Bank of England directed its cash toward them.
Similarly, Sanders and his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, favor effectively doing away with differential treatment of capital gains – a major reason why the richest Americans often enjoy lower rates.
Indeed, most of the health gains over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were brought about by far-reaching economic, political, and social reforms.
It is not just our future prosperity that is at stake; the world could lose the hard-won gains made in poverty reduction in recent decades.
The pharmaceutical firm gains as well, because the effective guarantee underpins public confidence in its products.
When such aspirations seem plausible, the system gains added democratic support.
Relentless efficiency gains in agriculture and resource extraction pushed down prices for commodities, especially during the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Instead, what is happening is that the integration of 2.5 billion people (China and India alone) into the global economy is producing a demand shift that is likely to put far more upward pressure on commodity prices than any technology gains are likely to offset.
By contrast, a capital-adequacy target of 7% and a CO2 target of 550 ppm would demonstrate policymakers’ willingness to place a higher priority on short-term gains – even if that means allowing another financial crisis or global warming’s long-term economic and human consequences to manifest themselves.
And make no mistake: despite the tremendous gains of the last couple of decades, much work remains to be done to sustain progress on health and development.
Investors search for regular small gains punctuated by occasional large losses, an approach exemplified by the carry trade by which investors borrowed euros in Germany and France to lend in Greece and Portugal.
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