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There will be winners and losers, of course, but systematic sectoral out-performance looks unlikely.
His solution was to assign property rights to the shared resource, compensating the losers.
Those who happen to live and work in traditional manufacturing districts caught in the turmoil of globalization are multiple losers: their jobs, their housing wealth, and the fortunes of their children and relatives are all highly correlated.
Yes, if a policy decision leads to aggregate gains, losers can in principle be compensated.
In practice, it is often hard to identify the losers and to find the right instrument to support them.
The AKP’s support came from both the winners and losers of globalization, from conservative middle Anatolia and cosmopolitan Istanbul, from the nationalist Black Sea region and the predominantly Kurdish Southeast.
The way it looks now, liberals, in the “progressive” American sense of the word, may actually have been among the losers of 1989.
Nonetheless, there is a creeping perception that the OSCE is becoming too deeply engaged in picking winners and losers in Albanian politics - a perception underpinned by wider questions of sovereignty.
Murder sprees are more often than not a form of personal revenge – losers wishing to blow up the world around them, because they feel humiliated or rejected, whether socially, professionally, or sexually.
Free trade, technological progress, and other forces that promote economic “efficiency” are presented as beneficial to society, even if they harm individual workers or businesses, because growing national incomes allow winners to compensate losers, ensuring that nobody is left worse off.
Liberalizing policies are justified in theory only by the assumption that political decisions will redistribute some of the gains from winners to losers in socially acceptable ways.
By deregulating finance and trade, intensifying competition, and weakening unions, governments created the theoretical conditions that demanded redistribution from winners to losers.
Ask the party strategists and they will tell you that the financial crisis is a topic for losers; voters want to hear something positive.
The big losers from falling oil prices include several countries that are not friends of the US and its allies, such as Venezuela, Iran, and Russia.
In the Arab world, in particular, Islam is dominated by a culture of humiliation felt by the people and nations that consider themselves the main losers, the worst victims, of a new and unjust international system.
The losers in the region are also clear: Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, which feel existentially threatened, and have come to regard their own Shia minorities as an Iranian fifth column.
Alternatively, economists might recommend compensating the losers from economic change, through social transfers and other benefits.
Competition means that a society has economic winners and losers, and everyone feels pressure to perform; flexibility means that the status quo is not written in stone.
The big losers from this economic disaster are workers in the advanced countries that bought into the laissez-faire flexibility of American-style capitalism.
Within each country, despite net gains, there are also some losers.
What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners, but the capacity to let the losers go – a much less demanding requirement.
Sure, trade has both losers and winners.
But so do tariffs, and the losers far outnumber the winners.
Even when inequality does not change with growth, one finds both gainers and losers at all levels of living.
One is the chasm between the winners and losers from trade and technology, a gap that goes a long way to explaining last year’s pro-Brexit vote.
Of course, the gap between winners and losers – which broadly corresponds to the electoral map – is not unique to Britain; it has incited populism and other forms of anti-establishment politics across the West.
Without the opportunity for kickbacks, businesses will emphasize efficiency, and markets will once again perform their proper function of selecting winners and losers.
That will mean improving protection of the EU’s external borders, compensating domestic losers from migration and free trade, and soothing public fears about terrorism.
If two troubled young men with homemade bombs cobbled together from fertilizer and pressure cookers can have this effect on a major American city, one can imagine how tempting their example must now be to other radical losers, not to mention radical groups.
But by claiming to be soldiers at war with the world’s biggest military power, they gain sympathy, as well as recruits, among the radical losers and the disaffected.
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