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All other things being equal, larger and more socially interconnected groups will produce a greater number of fancier tools, technologies, and techniques, even if their individual members are less inventive than those comprising a smaller, more isolated group.

The Iraq conflict, by contrast, is part of the world’s first global insurgency – the web of individual conflicts spawned by Islamist extremism, most of them related in some way to al Qaeda, and the global war on terrorism.

So India must “take steps that reduce social and economic inequalities, without hurting the process of growth and without reducing the incentives for individual enterprise and creativity.”

Aside from the fact that more serious issues face the French government than the sartorial habits of a small number of women, there is the matter of individual freedom.

There is always a delicate balance, to be sure, between commonly held views and individual liberties.

On the whole, individual practices, as long as they do no harm to others, should be allowed, even if many people don’t particularly like them.

In Nigeria, where there are 150 private jets but only four registered philanthropies, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s wealthiest individual, has donated close to $200 million to educational causes in the last two years.

It’s difficult to imagine that Trump, no fan of the press, would host such an event, much less stand stoically with his wife Melania greeting each individual guest, as Barack and Michelle Obama did for eight years.

Such a reform would eliminate individual countries’ veto power, allowing agreements to progress within the WTO even if certain members oppose them.

An individual member’s interest in holding up talks needs to be weighed against the interests of all, and in light of the WTO’s mandate.

But the response of many reviewers to Pinker’s work has been incomprehension, denial, or a tenacious focus on individual horror stories, as though they somehow change the larger picture.

Another is advancing drug therapies tailored to the needs of individual patients.

CDU/CSU policies are, of course, founded on the idea of individual freedom, but we believe in an individualism tempered by Western culture and the Christian tradition.

Far from being willing to coerce people to live in a certain way, German conservatives seek a politics that recognizes limits - the limits of the state, the market, and the individual.

We feel responsible, on a global level, for the environment, which is why we disagree with unilateral decisions by individual nations when such decisions ignore the needs of the rest of the world.

The connection between the general interest and the private interest of individual Americans has, if anything, become much stronger, even if their private interest is tied to a post office box in the Cayman Islands.

Gaps in income and wealth may be shooting up within individual countries, but per capita income in developing countries is rising much faster than in the advanced economies.

But none of them proposed a better solution, except to hope that United States-led individual sanctions or an oil embargo might do the trick.

And, one hopes, the individual will be cured.

More ominously, the PO’s leader, Grzegorz Schetyna, remains unpopular at a time when politics is driven largely by spectacle and the strength of individual personalities.

Of course, large differences in the fiscal position of individual member states remain.

I hope that the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs will reconsider its behavior, and that the “Buttiglione affair” will remain only an ordinary political injustice against a single individual rather than the harbinger of second-class citizenship for religious believers.

A final deal will almost certainly take much longer, not least because parts of it will require ratification by individual member states.

Indeed, in many ways, the article is a litmus test of where individual countries are in their own evolution toward full equality for men and women.

Despite the introduction of individual accounts 20 years ago, China’s pension system effectively still functions on a pay-as-you-go basis.

In advanced countries, programs that screen for adversity and respond to the specific health and developmental needs of individual children and families can yield benefits that far exceed their costs.

Complicating the inequality narrative further are differences across individual economies, including among those that, technically, have similar levels of inequality.

While sovereign credit quality has deteriorated virtually across the board, and will most probably continue to do so, the implications for individual countries vary.

Absent alienable individual ownership of productive resources, it is asserted, there will be insufficient means and incentives to pursue development initiatives, and shared resources (the “commons”) will be over-exploited and used inefficiently.

In reality, the so-called “tragedy of the commons” is neither ubiquitous nor inevitable, and individual property rights are not always the best – and never the only – institutional solution for dealing with social dilemmas.

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