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The core of Obamacare is an attempt to ensure that all Americans have health insurance, via the individual mandate.
In general, the best government interventions target failures precisely – using cap and trade to put a price on air pollution, for example, or relying on the individual mandate to curtail adverse selection in health insurance – while letting market forces do the rest more efficiently than bureaucrats can.
But there is a need for broader implementation within individual economies, and better coordination across borders.
But, as individual taxpayers, we are helpless, because we do not control outcomes, owing to the concerted efforts of lobbyists, or, worse, economic policymakers.
Still, there is a clear limit to what individual countries can achieve on their own.
When the debt burden of an individual, firm, or government is too high, legal systems need to provide orderly ways to reduce it to a more sustainable level (closer to the debtor’s potential income).
Finally, at the individual level, greater flexibility could also be built in at the pump, through the promotion of flex-fuel vehicles of the type already in use in Brazil.
Within the framework of these rules, individual countries would retain the authority to design their policies.
Looking only at individual extreme events will not reveal their cause, just like watching a few scenes from a movie does not reveal the plot.
Competition policy was attuned to deal with individual crises, but a systemic crisis has almost broken its back.
His argument was that Asians were used to putting the collective good above individual interests.
In addition to individual businesses, entire value chains that contribute heavily to the country’s GDP have suffered a sudden operational and financial freeze.
Her role should be determined not by old-fashioned rules, but by her individual strengths and ambitions.
The mandates of individual development banks vary.
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.
They increasingly challenge the traditional view that efficiency and equality imply less individual choice.
For until the very end of her battle with cancer, she continued to speak out for individual transformation and, on the part of those elected to lead us, for their selfless stewardship.
In a high-growth environment, each group or individual could count on getting a lucrative contract or project.
The situation is no better if the 3% rule applies to the tariff lines that the US imports from the rest of the world (rather than to the lines individual poor countries export to the US), for then the US can exclude roughly 300 tariff lines from duty-free and quota-free treatment.
Europe was divided into eight broad zones, comprising individual countries like Germany, France, and Italy, or groupings of smaller countries such as Benelux and the Nordic area.
Protestants only cut out the priests as conduits between an individual and his maker.
His view of the collective good was entirely individual.
What has emerged since the social upheavals of the 1960’s and the financial “Big Bangs” of the 1980’s is a new type of liberalism that not only lacks a clear moral basis, but also regards most government restraints as attacks on individual freedom.
It encourages us to become narcissistic consumers, expressing our “likes” and sharing every detail of our individual lives without truly connecting with anyone.
On the contrary, policy errors and delays in individual countries will seriously damage economies worldwide.
This confusion allows Russia to pick off individual member states by signing long-term energy deals while undermining the EU on issues from the future of Kosovo to nuclear proliferation.
The answer seems to consist in those countless individual choices at key moments, the accidents of human messiness, such as Schabowski’s “botch,” so small and so understandable, yet so earthshaking.
In fact, Alexander Hamilton adopted this approach more than 200 years ago, when he decided to mutualize the debts that individual US states had incurred during the Revolutionary War – a decisive move toward further political integration.
Such a movement must be propelled by the sense that, far from being mutually exclusive, European integration and national pride are mutually reinforcing – a perspective that presupposes strong, confident national states, as proud of their individual heritages as of their shared one.
Lists have been drawn up of people who played a significant role in the Japanese colonial regime, ranging from university professors to police chiefs – and extending even to their children, reflecting the Confucian belief that families are responsible for the behavior of their individual members.
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