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The ubiquitous sense of entitlement, accompanied by automatic skepticism about all things political, seems to have been replaced by a recognition that some problems are not susceptible to simple left-right explanations or solutions; that the government is neither omnipotent nor always ill-intentioned; and that there are limits to the prosperity that politics can provide.
And 42 states have set limits on the taxes and expenditures of their cities.
It then put up signs that look like speed limits, but tell pedestrians that they are in, for example, a “10 Smiles Per Hour Zone.”
A progressive realist foreign policyIt would start with an understanding of the strength and limits of American power.
We like new applications and try them out, handing over access to our Facebook or Twitter accounts without much thought about the migration of our personal data from big companies with some modicum of oversight to small companies without rigorous structures and limits.
The original construction of the euro postulated that each member would abide by the limits set by the Maastricht Treaty.
But previous Greek governments egregiously violated those limits.
Moreover, nagana limits cattle rearing in ten million square kilometers of Africa.
But because there are limits to what foreign assistance can achieve, it needs to be planned carefully.
In the eurozone, the main source of disagreement has been how debts in need of refinancing were incurred – that is, whether they contravened agreed debt limits.
Constitutional debt limits have yet to be tested in times of emergency, when new funding is needed quickly.
Fortunately, the World Bank now appears to recognize the limits of its income-based indicator.
But examples of large-scale, self-sustaining programs powered by digital technology, like M-Pesa, are harder to find, because the key pieces have not been put into place to enable the required work to advance beyond the limits of controlled experiments.
The fact is that we need fewer efficient-markets theorists and more people who work on microstructure, limits to arbitrage, and cognitive biases.
Though policies like limits on mortgages for first-time buyers and minimum residency requirements for purchasing property in a first-tier city like Beijing or Shanghai helped to ease demand, supply-side tactics, such as limiting credit to real-estate developers and imposing new taxes on property sales, have proved to be counter-productive.
Lack of education keeps Roma out of work and limits their future opportunities.
But their enthusiasm has limits.
At the same time, US troops in Uganda are subject to legal limits – at a minimum, the Geneva Conventions, whose most important norms include the prohibition of murder, torture, and cruel treatment.
Will it block leaders from changing their countries' constitutions to allow them to seek re-election after their term limits are over?
But the most recent UNFCCC summits have revealed the limits of this approach.
The limits of the eurozone’s solidarity policies are now being tested.
The most basic reason for the rise in natural resource prices is strong growth, especially in China and India, which is hitting against the physical limits of land, timber, oil and gas reserves, and water supplies.
This means that just setting urban speed limits at 30 miles per hour or less, and allowing local authorities to reduce speed limits further around schools and other areas with high pedestrian traffic, would save many lives.
They have also established speed limits tailored to local road conditions, while stepping up enforcement to deter traffic violations.
Local-government funding, through the seizure and resale of property, was reaching its limits.
But there are limits to such tactics, because if depositors are being charged, at some point it becomes preferable for them to buy safes and store banknotes.
It was also desirable, because rapid growth was hitting environmental limits.
Economists use the concept of utility to explain why people make the choices they do – what to buy, where to invest, how hard to work: everyone is trying to maximize utility in accordance with one’s preferences and beliefs about the world, and within the limits posed by scarce income or resources.
But China’s export-led growth model has limits – and the country is reaching them.
The 2007 Treaty of Lisbon limits the EU’s authority to what “cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, either at central level or at regional and local level.”
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