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That is how the post-war Coal and Steel Community was transformed into the EU – one step at a time, understanding that each step was incomplete and would require further steps in due course.
But the euro was an incomplete currency: it had a central bank but no central treasury.
The problem is that none of these discussions addresses the fundamental flaw in the eurozone’s structure: It is an incomplete monetary union.
As Michael Nielsen discusses in his recent book Reinventing Discovery, the “publish or perish” mentality that dominates the field means that many substandard or incomplete papers are published, while those people who are supposed to benefit from the research are often little more than an afterthought.
In this context, taking the steps needed to upgrade economic systems, including infrastructure in the US and the incomplete union in Europe, or to meet historical challenges like the refugee crisis, seems all but impossible.
Once classified, we will then be able to make predictions about two closely related species based on incomplete information about either, buying time and saving money.
But, in my opinion, the reason for different – and frequently contradictory – interpretations is an incompetent and incomplete approach that detaches individual texts from their context and construes them without a thorough understanding of the true spirit of the Koran.
So far, the burden-sharing challenge, along with naive and incomplete growth models, may have contributed to gridlock and inaction.
Obama has publicly said he intends to push for a comprehensive test ban treaty, a treaty that India opposes because it feels its own nuclear deterrent remains incomplete.
Yet it is also clear that our monetary union is still incomplete.
The sources cited by Vanity Fair confirm that the intelligence on which the team made the decision to “go in” was impressionistic and incomplete (that is, the target, judging from the length of his shadow, was “tall and thin” like Bin Laden, but his identity was not 100% certain).
It actually feels incomplete to watch the World Cup alone.
The bread-and-butter theories for microeconomics research – incomplete contracts, two-sided markets, risk analysis, inter-temporal choice, market signaling, financial-market microstructure, optimal taxation, and mechanism design – are far more complicated, and require exceptional finesse to avoid inelegance.
Both are incomplete and provisional, fueling skepticism among their critics.
Uribe knows that his mission remains incomplete.
So our daily behavior and reactions must be based on incomplete, and occasionally misleading, mental models.
But, while a banking union would be a positive step, it will be incomplete without efforts to reduce inequality.
The WTO has been marginalized, and even what has already been achieved in the incomplete Doha Round appears unlikely to be delivered in a final agreement in the foreseeable future.
While the central government admits to some of the environmental degradation caused by rapid economic growth, the picture it paints is incomplete.
It is a difficult subject to address, and doing so is impeded by lobbying efforts and incomplete information.
Michnik admits that all revolutions are incomplete in the sense that not all sinners are punished, and not all virtuous people are rewarded.
If some health workers use cellphones to send information to a central database, but others do not see the value, the digital system is incomplete – and thus just as flawed as the current paper system.
In just a few years, the Union built a framework for managing civilian and military crises, however imperfect or incomplete these tools may still be.
At a time when China is attempting the difficult transition from a system of incomplete contracts to a strong property-rights regime, the real-world importance of these contributions could not be clearer.
More recently, the incomplete contract approach has also been used in the area of shadow banking.
Regulators allowed innovations in incomplete contract-based financial intermediations, such as trust companies and Internet-based platforms, while maintaining tight control over the formal banking sector.
In that sense, these incomplete contracts laid the foundation for market-oriented competition in China, before it was possible – owing to institutional and ideological barriers – to achieve clearly defined private property rights.
In fact, the loopholes in the incomplete contracts are undermining progress.
In short, China’s incomplete contracts need to be completed.
Financial re-regulation should and will emphasize capital, reserve, and margin requirements; limiting systemic risk buildup by constraining leverage; eliminating fragmented and incomplete regulatory coverage and regulatory arbitrage (a huge challenge internationally); and a focus on transparency.
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