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In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has become a strong force in parliament despite the limits imposed on the participation of Islamist groups in last year’s elections.
It must stem from the job insecurity sometimes imposed by free trade, and the sense of injustice that arises when one is among the losers.
Further aid packages for Greece may seem impossible to avoid, because the losses imposed on Greek debt holders have been too modest.
That has changed, and we see the region’s imperially imposed frontiers being called into question.
The temporary discipline imposed by the currency board had masked the absence of crucial reforms.
In the United Arab Emirates, the Jordanian journalist Tayseer al-Najjar is serving a three-year sentence, which will be prolonged if his family is unable to pay the massive $136,000 fine imposed on him for a post he made on social media.
Let me be clear: the rational expectations models made an important contribution to economics; the rigor which its supporters imposed on economic thinking helped expose the weaknesses many underlying hypotheses.
Either way, the West has now spread its negative emotions, after having once imposed its mostly materialist values on the rest of the world.
The internal fighting in Palestine began in part as a result of the political impasse caused after Israel and the international community imposed an economic embargo on the Palestinian Authority.
If intra-European trade barriers are imposed, and companies choose to invest elsewhere to access Europe’s single market, lower-paid jobs in disadvantaged regions may disappear altogether, or wages will fall further.
In an attempt to push Haiti toward democracy, the US imposed economic sanctions, which crippled Haiti’s fragile and newly emerging export sector, especially apparel and other labor-intensive production.
In 2010, for example, Russia imposed an export ban on wheat, following a severe drought.
In the end, reforms of social welfare will be imposed, if not by political leaders then by international competition and interdependence.
The Davignon Plan imposed Europe-wide production and price controls, monitored and coordinated national governments’ state aids, organized the closures of outdated plants, encouraged mergers, and awarded EU funding to retraining schemes for redundant steel workers.
The most contentious point here is whether the British economy is held back in some way by red tape imposed by Brussels or by European treaty obligations.
The costs imposed by such politicians are high for all of us, even if they do not fully achieve their protectionist and nativist ambitions, because they prey on fear, inflame bigotry, and thrive on a dangerously polarized us-versus-them approach to governance.
After the Cold War, the West imposed an international order that defined geopolitics worldwide.
This reality has taken a while to sink in, and a number of parties on the left still cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the constraints imposed by market forces.
Rather than deflating the economy, Nixon took America off the gold standard in 1971 and imposed wage, price, and import controls, proclaiming bluntly, “I am now a Keynesian in economics.”
On August 15, 1971, Nixon imposed a temporary surcharge of 10% on imports “to ensure that American products will not be at a disadvantage because of unfair exchange rates.”
For all Reagan’s free-trade rhetoric, he freely imposed trade restrictions, including the notorious “voluntary” export restraints on automobiles.
To this day, Afghanistan has not recognized the Durand Line – drawn by a British diplomat in 1893 and imposed on Afghanistan by India’s colonial rulers – as the formal border with Pakistan.
Many Germans, especially men who had served in the armed forces, felt humiliated by defeat in World War I, and the harsh terms imposed on their country by the allied governments.
Despite the tightening economic noose – the US imposed sanctions on all companies that do business with Iran’s central bank, and the European Union plans to impose sanctions on Iranian oil exports by the end of January – many nuclear experts now estimate that Iran is very close to enriching enough uranium to build a bomb.
With practically half of Italy’s debt financed by European Treasury Bills – producing an effect similar to a reduction in the average maturity of its debt – a successor government would be all the more responsive to any punishment imposed by the EFA.
Moreover, a system that focuses almost exclusively on EU rules imposed on its member countries to guarantee a well-functioning monetary union is politically unsustainable.
To be sure, central banks technically should do whatever it takes to meet their inflation targets; but excessive quantitative easing has imposed high costs, and seems to have favored the few at the expense of the many.
They emerge as soon as domestic emissions are taxed in some part of the world (or, equivalently, as soon as quotas are imposed), because domestic producers then claim that they are at a disadvantage in international trade.
As military rule became the norm in Africa in the 1970’s, northern army officers imposed an authoritarian and predatory mode of governance on the country, a vicious grip that was loosened only when a resurgent civil society forced them to return to the barracks in 1999.
But the skewed and unbalanced trade deals that produced these results were not imposed on the US by other countries.
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