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Power corrupts everywhere, but individuals in China such as Liu have come to form a countervailing force.
Human rights crimes, though fostered by states, are committed by individuals acting according to their own wills.
But the world is divided into sovereign states, not individuals, and there is no way to assess each individual’s greenhouse-gas emissions.
The fund’s goal now is to raise $3.6 billion from foreign governments, private companies, and individuals over the next 13 years.
The goals must have measurable, achievable objectives that extend beyond national policy; they must inspire regional and local administrations, businesses, civil society, and individuals everywhere to change their behavior.
Sometimes change occurs at a pace that outstrips the capacity of individuals and systems to respond.
The rules of the game that are supposed to provide guidance to individuals and firms lack clarity and stability.
The commercial calculus behind this business sometimes caused riots until anatomy laws allowed the bodies of executed murderers and the unclaimed dead to be used, thus reassuring middle and upper class individuals that their bodies would not be involved.
Body tissue can be used to identify the genetic predispositions of individuals (of interest to insurers), or to redefine political entitlements (as Native Americans fear), or to reinforce social stereotypes (say, through research on diseases of specific race groups).
This was followed by the June 2001 court decision to set a date for trial, making it possible at last to present the evidence against these individuals.
Corporations could exist only as long as free individuals willingly purchased their goods – and would go out of business quickly otherwise.
It maintains lethargic, wasteful, unproductive, and well-connected firms at the expense of dynamic newcomers and outsiders, and favors declared goals such as industrialization, economic development, and national greatness over individuals’ economic freedom and responsibility.
Price stability, according to this view, reduces uncertainty, thereby enabling firms and individuals to take the right decisions, so it is good, not bad, for economic activity.
It now deems individuals of Haitian descent born in the Dominican Republic to have no right to Dominican nationality, because their parents or grandparents, many of them residents for years, if not decades, were supposedly “in transit.”
One intriguing finding from this research, published in 2016 in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, is that personality traits associated with a proclivity for harassment may be “specialized psychological adaptations” that allow individuals to exploit “niches” in society.
Unrelated to the topic of secular stagnation, Stiglitz takes a swipe at me by saying that Obama turned to “the same individuals bearing culpability for the under-regulation of the economy in its pre-crisis days” and expected them “to fix what they had helped break.”
The Hidden Danger of Big DataCAMBRIDGE – In game theory, the “price of anarchy” describes how individuals acting in their own self-interest within a larger system tend to reduce that larger system’s efficiency.
Inevitably, politics is theatre as well – theatre as a system of symbols addressing us as a whole, as individuals, and as members of a community, and testifying through the specific event in which it is embodied, to the great happenings of life and the world, enhancing our imagination and sensibilities.
Repentant jihadis are taught that violence undertaken by individuals – not by the legitimate ruler – is sinful and will be punished by God.
The Danish cartoons were offensive, but did their publication warrant the killing of innocent individuals, attacking Danish and Western embassies and their citizens, and the burning of the Danish flag around the world?
But I don’t see what alternative political-economic arrangements could make individuals’ relative wealth closely correspond to their relative moral or other merit.
Rising inequality – owing partly to job-slashing corporate restructuring – is reducing aggregate demand further, because households, poorer individuals, and labor-income earners have a higher marginal propensity to spend than corporations, richer households, and capital-income earners.
Trump’s Economic War of ChoiceOTTAWA – The brewing conflict between the United States and China is typical of zero-sum contests among countries, firms, and individuals.
They target communities rather than individuals and should be supported by public investment.
The primary drivers of the deficit increase over the next decade are the higher cost of benefits for middle-class older individuals.
Since 1983, average life expectancy of individuals in their mid-sixties has increased by about three years.
Consider the effects of pension “reforms” that force individuals to bear more risk, or of labor-market “reforms” that, in the name of boosting “flexibility,” weaken workers’ bargaining position by giving employers more freedom to fire them, leading in turn to lower wages and more insecurity.
It should acknowledge the processes that keep certain individuals and groups in poverty and that deny them the basic rights of citizens.
This was centrally important to sustaining global growth, for the performance of world’s largest economy has been fueled by real estate in recent years, with individuals refinancing their mortgages and spending some of the proceeds, and with high prices leading to more construction.
But Europeans must admit that these individuals represent a small minority.
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