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A similar logic applies to countries considering fishing quotas; as a result, bluefin stocks are running low.
Similarly, today’s political revolt may be following an unstoppable logic, whereby every country must close itself off to trade, migration, and capital flows, or risk losing out in a zero-sum game.
Indeed, it was precisely this logic that me led to give a very dark forecast in a widely covered speech in Singapore on August 19, 2008, a month before Lehman Brothers failed.
The logic of devolution is clear.
This sensible-sounding logic currently underpins austerity.
To understand the logic of state capitalism, it is useful to recall some early examples – not the socialist command economies or modern societies seeking to combat market failures, but ancient civilizations.
Inserting the confidence fairy between the cause and effect of a policy does not change the logic of the policy; it simply obscures the logic for a time.
By any logic, North Korea was being offered a good deal; sooner or later, it should have taken it.
It has been a victim of its own grandiose dreams about its role in the world and place among Islamic nations, and often of intense emotionalism and an absence of calm, dispassionate logic.
The West had only one opponent, and both sides understood the rules of the game (that is, the logic of the balance of terror).
The same logic applies to Putin’s Russia.
That logic is what led Bill Clinton’s administration, following the failure of US intervention in Somalia in 1993, to fail to act the following year to prevent the genocide in Rwanda, which in retrospect could have been halted with quite limited action.
The logic of this type of mobilization is that resources are directed to the group that shouts the loudest and is able to trigger social conflict.
They made themselves rich, goes the logic, so maybe they can do the same for the rest of us.
Unless the democratic world understands that now is not the time for faith in diplomatic compromise, and that it must respond strongly enough to stop Putin’s imperial designs, events could follow a logic that is too dreadful to contemplate.
The logic behind Putin’s overtures is clear.
By the same logic, stronger growth in 2014 and tightening labor markets should lead to healthier wage gains for the 70% of the workforce whose real wages have not yet returned to their pre-recession level.
In contemporary societies, finance must serve a public purpose beyond the logic of financial market profitability.
But the timing and type of allegations against multinationals have so effectively damaged their brands that one might ask whether there is a deeper logic to the government’s actions.
By the logic of the political scientist Samuel Huntington , considering such a scenario could help us avoid it, because it would force us to take action.
But to understand the effects of populist policies, one must first understand their logic.
This explanation may seem even more paradoxical than the first, but the logic is straightforward: Governments often try to escape the hard task of improving economic efficiency through supply-side reforms and rely on demand-side fixes instead.
So here, too, the logic points to a vicious circle: Slower growth leads to artificial remedies and further erosion of long-term growth potential.
But the continuing US boycott of Hamas reinforces the logic of those who are trying to sabotage the negotiations.
But the logic of isolated intervention ignores the interconnectedness of the system, whereby distress in one large institution often creates spillover effects that feed destabilizing system-wide runs.
Rosneft’s expansion takes this logic to a new level.
There is a deep logic to this finding.
It is an arresting assertion, given the tax-cut mania that has prevailed in these societies for the past 30 years, but Diamond and Saez’s logic is clear.
From this simple chain of logic follows the conclusion that we have a moral obligation to tax our superrich at the peak of the Laffer Curve: to tax them so heavily that we raise the most possible money from them – to the point beyond which their diversion of energy and enterprise into tax avoidance and sheltering would mean that any extra taxes would not raise but reduce revenue.
The utilitarian economic logic is clear.
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