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The field is in the process of gaining a better understanding of a host of complex systems within individual cells.
A remarkable observation supports this analogy: viruses behave like individual pieces of programs, using the cell as the machine needed to make them multiply and subsequently propagate (often by destroying the machine).
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will be no less transformative: individual technologies will be influential, but changes in our social and economic systems will do far more to shape our future lives.
For starters, focus should be placed on systems rather than on any individual technology; only by observing how divergent technological, social, and economic forces interact with one another can any country’s leaders and citizens determine and predict how business, society, and economics may change.
In Europe, individual countries implemented divergent rules that hurt their economies and distorted competition, instead of developing common subsidy principles.
It contains elements of both US social security and individual retirement accounts, while reflecting a commitment to training and reskilling.
The challenge now – for the developed economies, at least – is to develop stronger and more streamlined social-solidarity systems, create room for more individual choice in the use of benefits, and make benefits portable.
Only by striking the right balance between individual choice and social-policy guidance can modern economies build the social-safety programs they need.
In fact, the fate of this group is perhaps the best example of how individual identities of the new member states are beginning to assert themselves now that membership in the EU and NATO are secured.
On the Greek island of Lesbos last year, more than 50,000 individual volunteers and NGOs such as Sea of Solidarity and the Hellenic Rescue Team, which this week won UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award, assisted exhausted migrants arriving from their traumatic sea crossing.
The benefit to the entire economy was bigger than the sum of the benefits for the individual mills.
Do such adoptions achieve anything more than helping the individual children adopted?
For 30 years or so, the distributional aspects of the global growth patterns that these efforts underpinned were positive, both for individual countries and for the world as a whole.
There is no systematic separation of faith and state; the family, not the individual, remains the basic social unit.
The essential elements of modern European political life – individual rights and duties, and the accountability of government to the governed – are lacking, particularly in the Arab Middle East.
Many individual donor countries have declared that they are now prepared to increase their financial support for smallholder agriculture, but are searching for the appropriate mechanisms to do so.
We must rethink our ideas about economic and social development, value creation, privacy and ownership, and even individual identity.
For example, we should ensure that values and ethics are at the heart of our individual and collective behaviors, including in capital and financial markets.
Saving may also take the form of individual contributions to retirement accounts or employer contributions to corporate saving plans.
The EU’s main objective in institutional terms, regarding its relations with Russia, should be to ground the institutions of the new European order around the EU as a principal policy actor and not on the individual member states.
The most important example is constitutional courts – a different animal from the US Supreme Court, and one specifically tasked with ensuring respect for individual rights.
No single individual, nor several, nor even an overwhelming majority can accomplish it.
What will be needed is the general will – no longer just individual or collective, but truly general – of the Republic of France.
All successful economies are built on thrift, hard work, and individual initiative.
It is precisely the exercise of these individual rights that has created the foundation for China’s ongoing economic transformation.
Bound by the goal of economic prosperity, China’s leaders let the genie of individual rights out of the bottle.
Labor is the use of an individual capacity that can be remunerated but not owned by others, because slavery has ended.
Everybody in the team is crucial, but outside the team each individual is worth much less.
It will become impossible in an EU of 25-30, unless the scope for majority voting is enlarged, and the veto power of individual states reduced.
Alternatively, the data collected in some industries could become so widely shared across competing firms that they will all converge on a single price for each individual.
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