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Moreover, even if consumers did respond efficiently, fossil-fuel prices are dictated largely by heavily financialized markets, which tend to be extremely volatile.

But there is no guarantee that free emissions trading will not function like other financial markets, producing sharp fluctuations in CO2 prices.

Yet another problem with the price-based approach to mitigating climate change is that it fails to account for markets’ potential to create perverse incentives.

As government deficits and public debt increase in many developed and emerging economies, financial markets will most likely demand higher risk premia, owing to heightened fears of default and inflation down the road.

But, it is important that the government make a determined start by picking some “quick wins” to gain credibility with Brazilians and global markets alike.

Perhaps most important, labor markets must be made as flexible as possible, with well-trained workers secured by strong social-safety nets.

Roughly 90% of the world’s countries are without seats at the G-20 table, so many of their most serious development challenges – for example, limited access to foreign markets or to finance for infrastructure investment – are beyond their control.

Meanwhile, China’s economic slowdown – the result of global weakness and efforts to cool the country’s inflation and overheated asset markets – threatens to slow the pace of job creation for the millions moving annually from rural poverty to greater prosperity in China’s expanding urban areas.

Opening markets to greater competition and rebalancing the roles of government and markets is the most promising strategy to achieve high-income status in the coming decades.

Markets’ Rose-Tinted WorldLAGUNA BEACH – This has been an unusual year for the global economy, characterized by a series of unanticipated economic, geopolitical, and market shifts – and the final quarter is likely to be no different.

So why have financial markets been behaving as if they were in a world of their own?

Apparently unfazed by disappointing growth in both advanced and emerging economies, or by surging geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, equity markets have set record after record this year.

In the next few months, the buoyant optimism pervading financial markets may prove to be justified.

Instead, a great deal of flexibility, including within their labor markets, facilitated adjustment to asymmetric shocks.

Moreover, the Lisbon Agenda should be reinvigorated, with a focus on market reforms, and the EU should urgently reconsider measures – particularly regarding climate policy and the drift toward an EU-wide social policy – that risk imposing additional burdens on their economies and/or hamper the flexibility of markets.

Finally, rigid labor markets and, more generally, regulatory constraints on prices and on the supply response of the economy, deepen recessionary reactions to various shocks, and contribute to the growth of unemployment.

The current mess stems partly from adherence to a long-discredited belief in well-functioning markets without imperfections of information and competition.

If Western labor markets were flexible and gave way to the increasing pressure, employment could be maintained because the wages for unskilled workers would fall.

But markets like few things more than concluding that a populist is not that bad after all.

AMLO’s campaign manager has spent much time attempting to reassure investors, and markets may have already priced in whatever AMLO will do.

Indeed, Tobin designed it to solve an entirely different problem: excessive volatility in currency markets.

European leaders sometimes extend Tobin’s logic from the currency market to financial markets generally.

But which ones – the opportunist speculators, who sell when everyone else is selling, or the contrarian speculators, who do the opposite and stabilize volatile markets?

A house is an object; a habitat is a node in a multiplicity of overlapping networks – physical (power, water and sanitation, roads), economic (urban transport, labor markets, distribution and retail, entertainment) and social (education, health, security, family, friends).

With their more flexible economies and labor markets, the US and the UK have recovered more strongly than continental Europe in terms of GDP and employment since the 2008 global financial crisis.

In most of these countries, job creation is anemic, real wages are falling, and dual labor markets mean that formal-sector, unionized workers have good wages and benefits, while younger workers have precarious jobs that pay lower wages, provide no employment security, and offer low or no benefits.

For starters, it continues to yield net benefits for advanced and emerging markets alike, which is why the losers still tend to be a minority in most advanced economies, while those who benefit from globalization are a large – if at times silent – majority.

In the meantime, US politicians might have done just about enough to convince debt markets that America’s credit is still good.

The fact that inflation has increased in many Western countries, despite the severe recessions of recent years, could mean that financial markets have begun to account for this fundamental shift.

Moreover, given that the ECB, the Bank of England, and the Fed are venturing into capital markets – via quantitative easing (QE) in the US and the UK, and the ECB’s “outright monetary transactions” (OMT) program in the eurozone – long-term real interest rates are also negative (the real 30-year interest rate in the US is positive, but barely).

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