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Nor are European ministers, still struggling to catch up with reality, yet considering involuntary debt exchanges.
And, yes, Hamas deliberately chooses to place its military arsenal in highly populated areas under the involuntary protective shield of innocent civilians – or those Israeli officials sometimes refer to, with barely concealed mistrust, as the “uninvolved.”
In the wake of the Tiananmen massacre, however, individual dissidents and other political nonconformists were again committed to special psychiatric hospitals on an involuntary and indefinite basis.
Who is responsible for involuntary acts?
If restrictions on involuntary commitment to prevent crime are eased, zealous prosecutors could circumvent civil liberties.
Perhaps prudent loosening of the imminent-harm standard for involuntary commitment in clear cases of severe disorder might be helpful.
A stronger community response, supported by limited exceptions to legal restrictions on information-sharing, could have allowed involuntary evaluation of the suspect.
In the end, the report never makes up its mind about whether flexible forms of work in the “gig economy” represent Keynesian demand deficiency, voluntary choices for part-time work and self-employment, or the involuntary encroachment of automation.
The second is that the ECB knows that the financial system lacks transparency – and knows that investors know that they cannot gauge the impact of an involuntary default, which could cause credit markets to freeze, reprising the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ collapse in September 2008.
None of these explanations is an adequate excuse for the ECB’s opposition to deep involuntary restructuring of Greece’s debt.
There is, moreover, little evidence that a deep involuntary restructuring would be any more traumatic than a deep voluntary restructuring.
The one argument that seems – at least superficially – to put the public interest first is that an involuntary restructuring might lead to financial contagion, with large eurozone economies like Italy, Spain, and even France facing a sharp, and perhaps prohibitive, rise in borrowing costs.
But that begs the question: why should an involuntary restructuring lead to worse contagion than a voluntary restructuring of comparable depth?
If the banking system were well regulated, with banks holding sovereign debt having purchased insurance, an involuntary restructuring should perturb financial markets less.
Of course, it might be argued that if Greece gets away with an involuntary restructuring, others would be tempted to try it as well.
Our subsidizing of bank managers and executives is completely involuntary.
High levels of involuntary unemployment throughout the advanced economies suggest that demand lags behind potential supply.
With millions of people still victimized by modern forms of involuntary servitude, there is no time to waste.
But low levels of labor utilization are largely due to heavier income taxes and social security contributions, as well as high social benefit levels introduced at a time when the labor force was growing rapidly and the need to replace involuntary with voluntary unemployment seemed more urgent than today.
As the Post pointed out, there is no such thing as involuntary euthanasia in the Netherlands.
The answers are clear: involuntary unemployment and involuntary intra-EU migration.
These concerns are understandable; and it is particularly understandable that the new member states from Eastern Europe, who have no experience of voluntary integration--and far too much experience of involuntary integration--are apprehensive about some aspects of the draft constitution.
It did, however, lower the unemployment cost of reduced output – though not entirely: if the rise in involuntary part-time work is included in the cost, and as David Bell and David Blanchflower have done with their “underemployment index,” the UK government’s employment record is worse than Ferguson claims.
In the UK, according to the TUC, “the reduction in growth has been met (almost) entirely by lower earnings growth rather than lower employment growth….Many new opportunities have been concentrated in low-pay occupations, and there has been an associated increase in underemployment, involuntary part-time work, poor quality self-employment and temporary work alongside greater insecurity through zero-hours contracts, agency work and other insecure or short- term contracts.”
The premise of the Sex Buyer Law is that prostitution is always involuntary for women – that it is an organic form of violence against women and girls.
In any case, the countercyclical pursuit of price stability and/or full employment during cyclical downturns now seems destined for an extended involuntary holiday.
The broader question, then, is the impact of the impending loss of involuntary social mixing on diverse, multiethnic societies.
But even if there is no perverse Fisherian effect, interest-rate pegging or a situation in which rates are involuntary trapped at the ZLB could still amplify shocks.
Now, cash-strapped airlines wishing to access governments funds must not only cease stock buybacks and dividend payments until the end of 2021; they must also agree not to use involuntary furloughs or reduce pay rates until September 30.
It was his grandfather's, and it has not been altered at all on the outside.''How fine!' said Dolly, looking with involuntary surprise at a handsome house with a row of columns standing out among the variously tinted foliage of the old trees in the garden.
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