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As Haldane and May put it: “Excessive homogeneity within a financial system – all the banks doing the same thing – can minimize the risk for each individual bank, but maximize the possibility of the entire system collapsing.”
They are rites of passage that mark both an end and a new beginning in the life of a country or an individual.
It was this approach – one founded on a value-based system of rules, not on individual deals – that enabled the US to create and sustain a coalition of countries that could maintain peace and international cooperation.
It would create its own set of incentives, which, on balance, would pressure individual countries to avoid demotion, just as top-tier football (soccer) teams seek to avoid relegation to the minor leagues.
But the Schengen agreement offers an alternative, namely arrangements between individual states.
Reprogenetics, by contrast, is concerned with the question of what genes an individual child will receive, not with the vague, unscientific goal of improving a society's gene pool.
Moreover, it gives control to individual prospective parents.
All modern democratic societies must balance individual autonomy and social justice.
In the US, individual autonomy is of paramount importance.
And, because democracy is about institutions as much as about individual candidates, it is also good for citizens to exercise their right to vote.
Khatami, too, had good ideas about press freedom, individual rights, and democratic reforms.
In this age of austerity, characterized by shrinking defense budgets on both sides of the Atlantic, a “smart partnership” policy that is designed to allow individual countries or groups of countries to improve their interoperability with NATO is the obvious way forward.
And the US Constitution allows individual states to function as what Judge Brandeis called laboratories of democracy by experimenting with innovative policies without putting the rest of the country at risk.
And yet, according to the most recent IRS data available, for individuals lucky enough to be in the top 1% of income earners, that is exactly what the existing tax system dictates; within this group, the richer the individual, the lower his or her effective tax rate.
While it would not matter much to any individual bank whether it did so by reducing its loan portfolio or by raising its capital, it mattered very much to the economy that the banks chose the second.
For example, the “cultural-behavioral” approach explains health inequalities in terms of differences in individual behaviors, asserting that poorer people have worse health outcomes, owing to a higher propensity to smoke, drink alcohol, and eat less healthy foods.
For example, interventions aimed at changing individual behavior are far less challenging to prevailing power structures than those that demand extensive social investment or revitalization of the entire system.
Third, family pride and honor are deemed more important than a woman’s individual well-being and safety.
Deciding whether or not to rescue a specific financial institution, whether to ensure systemic stability or for other reasons, has visible consequences for individual investors.
They can announce the votes of individual board members on all policy-relevant matters and release minutes without undue delay.
They can publish more detailed financial accounts, including on their individual security transactions and counterparties.
A single homicide in America costs the individual and society $9.1 million.
While individual investors cannot be expected to invest in lobbying for stronger investor protection, it might be hoped that institutional investors – mutual funds, banks, insurance companies, and so forth – will do so.
This idea – which is firmly rooted in neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and sociology – implies that an individual has significant latitude in shaping his or her identities.
Addressing conflicts among government coalition parties, as well as within individual government parties, was postponed until after official EU entry.
From this perspective, the fact that individual black investors, according to Zuma, already own 10% of the stock market is impressive, given the predominance of institutional, not individual, investors.
Any unilateral measures against North Korea by individual countries must be executed within the broader framework of the new resolution.
The device will process and analyze radioactive waves collected from two million individual antennae, enabling researchers to map the shape of the universe by (they hope) 2020.
There is also a more fundamental reason to focus on future variations in the stock of pension debt associated with pension reforms: the EU has no business interfering with pension liabilities of individual member states.
Many even believe that their contributions accrue to an individual, capitalized, account, rather than financing the benefits paid to current pensioners.
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