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It is with respect to this that practically every individual has some advantage over all others in that he possesses unique information of which beneficial use might be made, but of which use can be made only if the decisions depending on it are left to him or are made with his active cooperation.”
His supporters soon numbered in the thousands, rather than the dozens, and he came to inspire generations, not just individual inmates.
As such, they will always have an interest in expanding their own individual and collective importance, regardless of whether it maximizes social benefits.
In fact, even economists in communist dictatorships could proffer their best technical advice with a comparatively clean conscience, because they were convinced that introducing more market-mediated outcomes would inject efficiency into planned economies and increase the sphere of individual freedom.
For individual investors, stocks remain personal risks; for Europe as a whole, bursting any speculative bubble may risk economic stability.
But individual commissioners are far less important than the trends that have caused the Commission to shift its priorities from enlargement and the internal market toward energy and monetary union.
Finally, and more important than any of these individual steps, the leaders of Europe have to take up the challenge and really start making the case for the larger Europe to their publics, east and west of the velvet curtain.
Sorting out the influence of genes and environment during the long, complex processes of human development is difficult – indeed, it is never possible to say of any individual, that x% of some aspect of their character is genetic, y % environmental.
At the level of individual consciousness, this means that religious certainty is now harder to come by.
In either case, the individual is thrown back on himself to reflect upon and come to terms with his native religious tradition.
Even if an individual decides to affirm a very conservative version of a tradition, this decision may, at least in principle, be revoked at some future time.
And comparable Orthodox ideas about communal solidarity (Russian sobornost ) make it difficult to accept capitalism, because competition and individual entrepreneurship are seen as a morally repulsive expression of ruthlessness and greed.
In fact, both have failed to take seriously the cultural differences – on issues like women’s rights, minority rights, family honor, and individual liberties – between asylum-seekers, mainly from the Middle East and North Africa, and the European societies where they hope to live.
In ignoring these differences, the political elites in both Germany and Sweden are risking some of their countries’ most valuable social assets, including security, stability, equality, tolerance, and individual freedom.
But individual initiatives are not enough.
Individual firms might have splendid investment opportunities – to enlarge plant and equipment, capitalize on new software, or exploit new research and new training of key personnel – but might be deterred by cash shortages or perceived macroeconomic risks.
The Extinction PuzzleWith six billion humans and counting – and our individual consumption growing – we face enormous challenges in using our natural resources sustainably.
This means that a European institution such as the European parliament would be authorized to decide the type of tax, the tax base and the tax rate for the individual tax payer; it would also be able to decide that a tax collected in one country can be spent in another country.
Japan’s ability to alter its trajectory depends on individual companies making decisions to invest, change workplace policies, deploy new technologies, and test untried business models.
So at the heart of a great country’s power is its economic might, both aggregate and in terms of the prosperity of its individual citizens.
What has made America so prosperous is the country’s ability to mobilize the natural resources of an entire continent, along with political stability and an extraordinarily rare combination of sensible government action and individual entrepreneurial innovation.
But this should not go too far, for there are limits to what the state can do, and the strength of private initiative constitutes one key aspect of America, which became the world’s leading nation thanks to its dynamism, flexibility, and individual inventiveness.
It means proving that the EU is better equipped than individual states to address contemporary challenges, particularly in a world in which a critical mass of power (military, economic, demographic) is increasingly necessary to have any room for maneuver.
Before even a word has been spoken, Europeans are being told that the negotiations in Brussels will be “bad-tempered,” with vetoes by individual member states looming large.
Unlike in the USSR, which massively infringed on citizens’ private space, today’s Russians enjoy virtually unlimited individual freedoms.
Nevertheless, the last 20 years of broad individual freedom and limited civil liberties have generated shifts in Russian society – if not across the board, then certainly among certain groups.
MUNICH – “It’s not the euro that’s in danger, but the public finances of individual European countries.”
They should be portable, attached to individual workers rather than to their employers.
Corporations are allowed to deduct interest payments on bonds, but stock dividends are effectively taxed at the both the corporate and the individual level.
But they rarely appreciate the texture of their democracy and civil society – the relative newness of hard-won freedoms and the intimate understanding of what tyranny, whether a homegrown dictatorship or a colonial administration, means to individual liberty.
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