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In fact, it sets the stage for dreaded austerity measures that make bad times worse.
The processes of twenty-first-century globalization are too sudden, unpredictable, and uncontrollable to rely on static measures like tariffs.
Although Europe’s leaders have made some progress on institutional reform, the measures taken so far will not lead to real convergence of economic and budgetary policies, or to genuine economic union.
If all eurozone members participated, Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU could be used to support their action.The scope of this provision – which says that, “the [European] Council shall…adopt measures specific to [euro] Member States,” and that “only [euro] Member States…shall take part in the vote” – is wide.
The group could also take some measures outside the EU framework.
This could include measures to strengthen the European Stability Mechanism and the Euro Plus Pact (designed to enhance economic policy coordination among member states), de facto cooperation within the Bretton Woods institutions, and voluntary approximation of national laws in certain areas.
In the European Parliament, by contrast, all 27 EU members participate in the decision-making process, even concerning measures that will affect only the 23 “eurozone plus” countries (the 17 eurozone members and the six that have agreed to the Euro Plus Pact) – a method that could pose a political problem.
These measures will include not just a cap on the number of economic migrants, but also policies leading to expectation of full employment and continuity of income.
The five-year review of child safety measures, launched by the Football Association (the governing body of UK soccer) in 2001, was dropped after just two years, reportedly in response to resistance from some FA staff.
Yes, the existence of religious fanatics eager to kill large numbers of innocent American civilians warrants strong measures in response.
Larry Summers recently argued that in a dynamic context, the evidence for elasticity of substitution greater than one is weak if one measures the return net of depreciation, because depreciation increases proportionately with the growth of the capital stock.
But traditional elasticity of substitution measures the ease of substitution with a given state of technical knowledge.
Now is the time to implement the measures that will accelerate the transition to a more consumer-led economy.
The Haitian government, UN agencies, and the humanitarian community are moving quickly to put treatment and preventive measures in place.
So far, the EU’s response to migration has depended on top-down measures and mandates.
Several other measures proposed at the Third Plenum seek to shift Chinese families’ behavioral norms.
The US needs fiscal measures that both curb the deficit and contain rising income inequality – and the inequality of opportunity that it begets.
But there is still time to negotiate an agreement that extends these cuts for the bottom 98%, and that contains temporary measures to cap deductions and credits for high-income taxpayers in 2013.
Multilateral measures will also be important.
Fourth, rising job losses lead to greater demands for protectionist measures, as governments are pressured to save domestic jobs.
Within days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the US had erected new and enormous security measures at airports throughout the country.
To be viable, policy measures must include comprehensive tax reform; a balanced deficit-reduction program; investment in education, skills upgrading, infrastructure, and technology; and a fully developed energy policy that anticipates rising relative energy prices as emerging-market growth enlarges the global economy to three times its current size over the next quarter-century.
Finally, to attempt this rebalancing in the current fiscal environment without tax increases (perhaps temporary measures designed to overcome the cumulative investment shortfall) would be very unwise.
A Cool Calculus of Global WarmingThe British government recently issued the most comprehensive study to date of the economic costs and risks of global warming, and of measures that might reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in the hope of averting some of the direst consequences.
US President Barack Obama has announced a far-reaching plan that authorizes the Environment Protection Agency to take dramatic measures in the next few months to limit power-station emissions, virtually ending coal-fired electricity generation altogether.
By some measures, China is already the world’s largest economy, and emerging-market and developing countries account for more than half of the world’s output.
But the harsh reality is that Europe depends on the US security umbrella, and there is little indication that counter measures by the EU will deflect Trump from his erratic course.
At the end of October, however, she finally articulated a vision of the future of Europe that persuaded the German Bundestag to agree to a package of measures to save the euro.
It’s about using “deadlines” to force Greece to knuckle under, and to accept the unacceptable – not only austerity measures, but other regressive and punitive policies.
And by working hard to spur growth, they have fueled China’s rise to become the world’s second-largest economy (by some measures, the largest) and secured the ruling Communist Party’s legitimacy in the post-Mao era.
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