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Herein lies the lesson for governments.
Some commentators may actually wish an insubordinate country ill, if only to prove a point or teach would-be followers a lesson.
The lesson is that revolutionaries confront an impossible dilemma after seizing state power.
The lesson, therefore, is that Italy’s key priority should be to revive growth.
Whether the US government deliberately lied to the world about the existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction or got carried away by its own rhetoric is less important than the lesson to be learned: it is dangerous to put excessive power in the hands of a few.
Indeed, the only true lesson of the crisis so far seems to be that its lessons will never truly be learned.
The practical and inescapable lesson is that when any country is left to its own policy devices, its preferences may lead to prolonged and ultimately unsustainable imbalances.
But no lesson is more profound than that of a series of policy blunders made by the BoJ.
The most important lesson from the 1930s, as well as from the modern-day Japanese experience, is that monetary policy provides no answer for a chronic deficiency of aggregate demand.
African countries should take a lesson: in building knowledge economies, they will need to support industries’ maturation, and then rescind protectionist measures, in order to mitigate complacency and spur innovation.
Their lesson for the rest of Europe is that dreams can come true if we fully engage in realizing them.
That lesson, handed down along with the judgment against Videla, vindicates efforts to establish a global rule of law.
If one lesson of history is the danger of globalization running amok, another is the malleability of capitalism.
The former Polish president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, had, it seemed, provided a perverse lesson in virtue when, having been caught lying about his educational credentials, protested that he did not remember whether he had actually defended his master’s thesis as required to receive his degree.
Turkey is currently on the spot, but the larger lesson applies far beyond Syria and, indeed, the Middle East.
In our new book This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly , Carmen Reinhart and I find that if financial crises hold one lesson, it is that their aftereffects have a very long tail.
That lesson should have been absorbed and understood, not least by American strategists, long before the Taliban’s fall.
The lesson for the EU is clear: if it wants to matter diplomatically, the Union must be able at least to give the impression that it matters militarily.
Yet the US – indeed, the entire West – seems not to have learned its lesson.
But the doctrine of preemptive war has been badly tarnished, and I remain hopeful that Congress and the American people have learned a painful lesson.
That lesson was reinforced by the experience of countless debt crises in peripheral countries, the most destructive of which hit Latin America exactly 30 years ago, after ecstatic borrowing fueled economic booms.
Davos man is beginning to learn a much-needed lesson in humility, requiring him to ask which of his beliefs are foundational, and which need revision.
Fifty years later, this is the lesson for us of the Schuman’s declaration.
There is another lesson here: good leadership also consists in knowing when to step down.
The lesson remains valid today.
In an updated lesson in realpolitik, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently was happy to count Pope Francis as an ally in opposing American military intervention in Syria.
One important lesson from Latin America’s journey concerns the futility of relying on the exchange-rate regime as the main stabilization instrument.
A second lesson is the importance of flexibility.
Indeed, a third lesson is that neither hard pegs nor unfettered floating facilitate the preservation of a competitive real exchange rate, which is crucial to promoting and sustaining economic development.
His nobility consisted in never forgetting the lesson of the Rebbe of Vizhnitz, even after he had donned the robe of the man of letters, that he bore the burden of those, adorned in caftan and fur hat, who had wanted to be as elegant as the Polish nobles who led the pogroms against them.
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