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Too much debt in the system means that our traditional policy responses – fiscal or monetary – may prove ineffective or produce harmful side effects.
Indeed, it rests quite explicitly on the belief that in some circumstances increases in the monetary base per se will be wholly ineffective in stimulating nominal demand because of liquidity-trap effects.
Many are rejecting once-dominant perspectives on poverty and deprivation, warning that they lead to ineffective policy prescriptions.
Leaders must consider, design, and implement pragmatic and innovative alternatives, rather than continue to rely on ineffective policies and programs.
It is easy to conclude that no one is in charge: not the national governments, and certainly not the ineffective European Commission in Brussels, with which the large member countries seem to be practically at war.
The more the eurozone’s ineffective governance is criticized, the greater becomes the euro’s importance as a non-political currency that represents a secure store of value.
The formation of the eurozone and a half-century of relentless globalization have altered the global economic landscape, rendering once-proven policies ineffective.
In this sense, the ECB’s Governing Council is, consciously or unconsciously, following the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman’s 1998 advice that the Bank of Japan “credibly promise to be irresponsible” when nominal interest rates are already at zero and monetary policy is in danger of becoming ineffective.
So why do governments persist in using this cruel but ineffective strategy?
At the same time, almost one-third of the stimulus was devoted to tax cuts, which Keynesian economics correctly predicted would be relatively ineffective.
Sceptics fear that now that the collective financial threat is perceived, rightly or wrongly, to be manageable, the Pittsburgh Summit will result in a weak compromise that reflects divergent national interests rather than a sense of urgency about tackling climate change, chronic poverty and ineffective global governance.
Without building public support and providing proper enforcement mechanisms, changing laws alone is bound to be ineffective.
Much opinion poll evidence shows that the presidency is the only institution that Russians accept as legitimate (in contrast to the legislature and judiciary, which are perceived as corrupt and ineffective).
Others programs, such as Measures for Justice, are creating the data needed to gauge results, while non-profits like Pew Charitable Trusts, California Forward, and Third Sector Ventures are helping counties and cities find economically effective alternatives to expensive and ineffective prison expansion.
We cannot browbeat China and other developing nations into embracing hugely expensive, ineffective global carbon cuts.
Each crisis exposed weak and ineffective legal frameworks (often deliberately maintained by politicians), inadequate and dispersed supervision, and forbearance policies that only an industry lobbyist could love.
Admittedly, they are not watertight and could eventually be sidestepped, but they are far better than what might follow if they prove ineffective.
Keeping domestic prices for food and energy artificially low has proved to be not only ruinously expensive, but also very ineffective in achieving the declared goal of helping to alleviate poverty.
Today’s focus on ineffective and costly climate policies shows poor judgment.
All of them are now on life support, replaced by traditional policy measures that have proven ineffective in the past.
Local-level pilot programs and policy experiments also accelerate innovation, with authorities able to close ineffective programs quickly and expand those that work.
But this system has proved to be utterly ineffective in preventing spillovers – not least because the Fed and the ECB simply ignore it.
This, however, will not happen overnight, and in the meantime the demand for more regulation may result in a structure that is heavy, ineffective, and in the end impedes, rather than corrects, market forces.
It is easy to see why a general stimulus to demand, such as a cut in payroll taxes, may be ineffective in restoring the economy to full employment.
One can only hope that it will not indulge in more of the kind of spending that already has proven so ineffective – and that has left Japan with the highest debt burden (around 230% of GDP) in the OECD.
By abandoning this responsibility, today's state has become not only ineffective but dangerous.
To fill this gap, China must upgrade its fragmented and ineffective technical- and vocational-training programs.
But I was shocked by how large a panic was produced by what seemed to me – and still does – relatively small losses (in terms of the size of the global economy) in subprime mortgages; by the weakness of risk controls at the major highly-leveraged banks; by how deep the decline in demand was; by how ineffective the market’s equilibrium-restoring forces have been at rebalancing labor-market supply and demand; and by how much core-country governments have been able to borrow to support demand without triggering any run-up in interest rates.
“Innovative” must not become a euphemism for non-transparent, ineffective, or unsound.
Some people ascribe the global collapse of reform efforts to a peculiarly ineffective collection of leaders.
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