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But, apart from the political
impossibility
of nationalizing the whole economy peacefully, this approach suffered from the fatal flaw of ignoring the role of aggregate demand.
Inflating local growth numbers is so endemic that reported provincial GDP growth data, when added up, are always higher than the national growth data, a mathematical
impossibility.
In a leaked letter, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich explicitly acknowledged to Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev the
impossibility
of fulfilling Putin’s spending promises, and proposed a radical revision of current fiscal plans.
The PROMESA Board was supposed to chart a path to recovery; its plan makes a recovery a virtual
impossibility.
But this
impossibility
can be turned into a virtue, by creating a public trust fund to which companies like Google transfer a percentage – say, 10% – of their shares.
However, other scenarios loom, not so much of defeat as of confusion and the
impossibility
of creating sustainable peace.
Now, too, people warn of Muslim tricksters, states within states, the
impossibility
of assimilation, and the necessity for staunch secularists to free the benighted Muslims from their faith.
Concepts of justice and law, legitimacy and dignity, protection from oppressive rule, and participation in community affairs are found in every society; the challenge facing human rights advocates is to identify the common denominators, and not throw up their hands at the
impossibility
of universalism.
They have all invoked heroic precedents from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the
impossibility
of proceeding otherwise under brutal right-wing dictatorships, such as Batista’s in Cuba, Somoza’s in Nicaragua, and military-oligarchic complexes in Guatemala, El Salvador, Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, and elsewhere – including Colombia.
The IAEA’s optimistic rhetoric cannot obscure fundamental arithmetic: skyrocketing maintenance expenses and, in many cases, post-Fukushima upgrade costs, together with the
impossibility
of building competitive new capacity without massive government subsidies, are devastating the nuclear industry.
This partly reflects the near
impossibility
of gathering news.
It is important to understand why and how Arrow’s
impossibility
result comes about.
Nonetheless, Arrow’s
impossibility
theorem ultimately played a hugely constructive role in investigating what democracy demands, which goes well beyond counting votes (important as that is).
Rather than undermining the pursuit of social reasoning, Arrow’s deeply challenging
impossibility
theorem, and the large volume of literature that it has inspired, has immensely strengthened our ability to think rationally about the collective decision-making on which our survival and happiness depend.
Parents seeking treatment for a malaria-stricken child, or a place for that child in school, must pay from their own pocket – an
impossibility
for many.
So an alliance between them would seem a near
impossibility.
If there is a consensus on one issue, it is the
impossibility
of understanding the bubble and the crash without considering the role of global imbalances.
Sometimes errors are not discovered until later, when they are working papers, as with Reinhart and Rogoff, or after publication, as with Nobel laureate Ken Arrow, who had to correct a mistake in the proof of his famous
impossibility
theorem.
There is also America’s understandable reluctance to become involved in yet another war in an Islamic country, as well as the
impossibility
of knowing what kind of regime might emerge if and when Assad is overthrown.
He worked assiduously to fan the flames of sectarian civil war, succeeding to the extent that now the chief reason for not intervening to stop the killing is the
impossibility
of doing so effectively in an environment of sectarian violence.
Many immigrant groups in Europe find themselves flung back on their own communities by the
impossibility
of social and economic integration.
The
impossibility
of sustaining growth in the absence of the rule of law and political accountability presents the Chinese Communist Party with an existential dilemma.
While missile defense is most likely unnecessary, given the absence of any serious threat, the Obama administration and other American realists – who are aware of the
impossibility
and uselessness of creating a multi-layered anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system – need such talks.
In reality, for them the conflict has come to symbolize the anachronistic perpetuation of an unfair colonial order, to represent their political malaise, and to embody the perceived
impossibility
of their being masters of their destiny.
Two reasons for this failure stand out: the institutional weakness of Palestinian civil society, which lacks the infrastructure necessary for nation-building; and the
impossibility
of simultaneous nation-building and peace-making.
Another problem with the emphasis on aid (in addition to the near
impossibility
of accurately measuring the scale of the flows from all sources) is that the political effort to increase it absorbs attention that would be better spent on a more powerful instrument of economic development: trade.
MOSCOW – In 1811, assessing the possibility – or, rather, the
impossibility
– of Russia ever undergoing a Western-style transformation, the diplomat and counter-Enlightenment philosopher Joseph de Maistre famously wrote, “Every nation has the government it deserves.”
But the
impossibility
of raising revenue then triggered the French Revolution, with the revolutionaries demanding confiscatory taxes and impositions on the wealthy elite.
Tragedy: the word signifies not only suffering and distress, but the
impossibility
of redemption.
Given what he takes to be the
impossibility
of tying future generations’ hands, he places his trust in the belief that sooner or later, after having been under one government, “the two communities will have become melted into one.”
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