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Politicians and regulators have neither the political courage nor the intellectual conviction needed to return to a much clearer and more straightforward system.
At a minimum, they should have the rights to life, liberty, and protection from torture that we grant to all members of our own species, regardless of their intellectual abilities.
When Jon Huntsman, an early contender, displayed some real intellectual heft by making a few useful points about dealing with China, punctuated by a brief display of his own mastery of Mandarin, some other candidates responded with derision.
This year’s presidential debates have addressed foreign policy solely in terms of whether the candidate would be “tough” enough to deal with the challenges – that is, as a question of emotional fortitude, rather than of the intellectual foundation required to understand those challenges.
In the long run, the anti-depressant crisis thus may prove to be a blessing in disguise, but only if it brings about the transparency and intellectual honesty needed to make the medical profession ultimately accountable to the people it claims to serve.
And most economists agree that the US has genuine trade grievances against China, including intellectual property theft, asymmetrical technology transfers, and non-tariff barriers, such as the requirement that foreign companies enter joint-venture agreements with domestic firms to access the Chinese market.
If we regard human rights as something possessed by all human beings, no matter how limited their intellectual or emotional capacities may be, how can we deny similar rights to great apes, who clearly surpass some human beings in their rationality, self-awareness, and emotional bonds with others?
Look at the oil companies: although the world faces growing uncertainty about new sources of energy, these companies, which have both the intellectual and material means to prepare for the next century, have more or less abandoned their role as providers of a new vision.
In this respect, the contemporary crisis is unlike the historical analogies, in that it looks as if financial innovation was driven by a set of intellectual and even technological innovations.
Since it is an economic crisis, most people seeking its intellectual roots are tempted to begin with economists, who, with a few exceptions, look particularly discredited.
Too many policymakers still believe that externally imposed opening to international capital flows was the main culprit behind the financial crises of the 1990’s – a view that unfortunately is lent some intellectual respectability by a small number of left-leaning academics.
Indeed, it is probably the only player with the universal political and intellectual legitimacy to find a way forward on collective action to address financial globalization.
To that end, China has curtailed Western companies’ access to its markets, making it conditional on their transfer of technology and intellectual property to domestic “partners.”
Five years ago, Taylor and his intellectual allies wrote an “Open Letter to Ben Bernanke,” warning that the quantitative easing planned by the Federal Reserve’s then-chairman risked “currency debasement and inflation.”
Early childhood development projects – designed to improve children’s physical, intellectual, and social development – form a third effective set of redistributive policies.
The biggest challenge Asians face is to use their intellectual and political leadership to save the world and themselves.
A more successful developing world also poses an intellectual challenge to the Bank as a custodian of research and policy thinking in the field of development economics.
Intellectual Property, Not Intellectual MonopolyWASHINGTON, DC – “The copyright and patent laws we have today look more like intellectual monopoly than intellectual property,” wrote Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles in their recent book about the US economy.
Concerns about overprotection of intellectual property acting as a barrier to innovation and its diffusion are not new.
But back in 1993 there was one exception – one senior Republican officeholder and policy intellectual who did not forget his policy commitments of earlier years: US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
Indeed, if multinationals and developed countries had an “Interpol” to track down and arrest countries charged with being havens for business piracy, China would likely top the “Most Wanted” list because of its lack of protection of intellectual property rights (IPR).
No surprise, then, that a backward, developing country in the early stages of “catching up” through learning from the developed world, sees copying the intellectual advances of others as something like a human right.
This may explain why the issues of intellectual property rights are, for most developing countries, usually treated as an “international matter,” not a problem for domestic politics.
When people in a country begin to illicitly copy the intellectual achievements of a fellow citizen, IPR becomes a real domestic political issue dividing special interest groups.
It offers real hope that China will improve its record of protecting intellectual property.
As developing countries seek to create their own “knowledge economy,” copyright and intellectual property rights will become more and more important.
Poverty is no excuse for “stealing” or gaining a free lunch, of course, but using the protection of intellectual property to keep the poor poor is unjust, and may cause instability that harms rich countries, too.
Reducing the costs for developing countries to use new technologies may, indeed, reduce the incentives for violating copyright and other intellectual property protections.
City dwellers, by contrast, can explore a wide variety of options to create custom-made villages according to their social, intellectual, or creative affinities.
As a political philosopher, I find democracy's internal enemies a true intellectual problem.
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