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Decision science, which combines understanding of behavior with universal principles of coherent decision-making, limits these risks by pairing empirical data with expert knowledge.
But now, facing China’s rise, India’s dynamism, Africa’s soaring populations and economic stirrings, Russia’s refusal to bend to its will, its own inability to control events in the Middle East, and Latin America’s determination to be free of its de facto hegemony, US power has reached its limits.
Not surprisingly, then, the US is finding it hard to accept the clear global limits that it is confronting.
There is a fundamental reason, of course, for these limits.
They designed planes, computers, and furniture, figured out how to lay out an assembly line, helped to make new cars faster and refrigerators more efficient, pushed the limits of computer chips, and invented new medicines.
The Limits of DubaiCambridge – Global investors are in a giant huff over Dubai’s decision to allow its flagship private company Dubai World to seek a six-month standstill (implying at least partial default) on payments on some $26 billion in debt.
But soaring oil prices, together with indications of natural limits, such as climate disruption, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity, demonstrate the need for a new approach.
Institutions must be developed to facilitate progress toward a higher quality of life for a larger proportion of the world’s population, while ensuring that environmental limits are respected – even if it diminishes some countries’ GDP.
Turkey is currently confronting the limits of its possibilities, while the EU finds that it can do very little in this region without Turkey.
Power today begins in the acceptance of the limits upon it.
This is also true of an India that is only now coming to recognize its new status in the world, in which the country’s limits and responsibilities have expanded mightily.
But like many Israeli military leaders - Rabin himself comes to mind - as a military man he is also a pragmatist, knowing the limits of power.
Suddenly, every child has a trust fund, with the accumulating dividends providing a universal basic income (UBI) that grows in proportion to automation and in a manner that limits inequality and stabilizes the macro-economy.
Since 1970, scientists have learned not only that human activity is the primary driver of environmental change on Earth, but also that it is pushing the planet beyond its natural limits.
We must accept that there are limits to tolerance.
Other key inter-governmental organizations face their own limits.
With the SNB’s assets amounting to nearly 90% of Switzerland’s GDP, the reversal raises serious questions about both the limits and repercussions of open-ended QE.
As Draghi attempts to deliver on his nearly two-and-a-half-year-old commitment, the limits of his promise – like comparable assurances by the Fed and the BOJ – could become glaringly apparent.
While several countries established legal limits to control spending, deficits, and debt, in some cases –for example, Argentina, Ecuador, and Venezuela – such laws were not enforced.
But, while the Arab world’s governments have reached the limits of their ability to employ more people, raise public debt, and attract outside grants, members of these countries’ political and economic elite, whom the current rentier system privileges, will likely resist efforts at substantive reform.
For much of history, the powerful managed to persuade the slaves, outcasts, and downtrodden that their poverty was a “natural” result of their own inferiority, laziness, and – testing the limits of human gullibility – sins committed in past lives.
Third, there are limits to what economic sanctions can be expected to accomplish.
This limits any economic pressure China is prepared to place on North Korea over its nuclear efforts.
Russia also uses its gas exports to Western Europe and Turkey as an economic weapon, although Turkey’s recent decision to source gas from Israel shows the limits of this strategy.
A second lesson from Shafir and Mullainathan applies to the limits of human “bandwidth.”
Between these planetary and social boundaries lies humanity’s safe and just operating space: the limits we must respect if we are to create a world that is ecologically resilient and free of poverty.
Now that the presidential term limits introduced by Deng Xiaoping to insulate the country against another one-man dictatorship have been eliminated, the future of the Communist dynasty rests on the shoulders of one supreme leader.
Attempts by political parties to thrive on nationalism, xenophobia and populism will soon be confronted with the limits set by the EU and other international organizations.
The limits of technocratic utopianism have been reached.
Indeed, politicians, eager to look good in the eyes of angry voters, are often more interested in setting limits to total compensation than they are in designing the optimal form of compensation.
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