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The more the scheme was exposed as unsustainable, the more doggedly officials clung to it – and the more optimistic their narratives.
In both narratives, traders borrowed money from the future.
And, indeed, the editing of history has been essential to national narratives almost everywhere.
As globalization increases competition, it also reinforces certain narratives – such as those dictating which research areas deserve the most funding.
He could not influence in any meaningful manner the national narratives that had sunk deep roots in other European countries and thus undermined those countries’ ability to adapt.
Europe likes to style itself as a postmodern construct, but one of the features of postmodernism is the reduction of political life to the playing out of cosmetically charged narratives or the convening of constantly changing focus groups.
Today’s skewed media narratives ignore or neglect the benefits of migration.
Crisis management is no way to sustain relationships that are economically close but riddled by rival claims and bitterly contested historical narratives.
A new “narrative economics,” Schiller maintains, should study “the spread and dynamics of popular narratives... – particularly those of human interest or emotion – and how these change through time, to understand economic fluctuations.”
Moreover, there is a great diversity of narratives on the green economy – and their proliferation is likely to grow.
Americans have deep-seated, optimistic views about social mobility, opinions that are rooted in US history and bolstered by narratives of rags-to-riches immigrants.
In the Israel-Palestine conflict, the historical narratives are overwhelming, and the geography is small, so details cannot be glossed over.
Eight years later, Europeans still embrace divergent narratives about the crisis.
These narratives endure to this day, only now they are being projected onto a single Jew: George Soros.
Such an approach would not only cause Western organizations and individuals to miss out on valuable opportunities; it also would strengthen the CPC’s capacity to control the flow of information, manipulate public opinion, and shape popular narratives.
To build a more inclusive workplace, management must craft narratives that support the changes their employees are demanding.
Given such narratives, foreign policy devolves in US political campaigns into a kind of testosterone check, rather than what is needed: a test of knowledge and judgment.
Over the last few decades, we have seen the decline and then collapse of the epic narratives around which European political structures were constructed.
These sentiments are not new, but in the past they could be managed by the large political forces built around the epic narratives of the left and right.
As those narratives have lost their power, the political field has been blown wide open.
But, until new narratives replace the old ones, the epochal shift in politics will simply bring forth other leaders who play on the same anger and fears.
It is a heartless, cynical strategy of reckless disregard for human dignity, justified by bigoted discourse and biased narratives.
Egyptians who lived through the past six decades and now see the country’s political structure unraveling – with all the social convictions, power nexuses, and top-down narratives that had been integral to it – feel disoriented.
Cancer by the NumbersPHILADELPHIA – It is difficult to communicate medical risk to a large audience, especially when official recommendations conflict with emotional narratives.
When it comes to policymaking, decisions must be based on facts and argument, not anecdotes and stories, however compelling those narratives may be.
By the time the next presidential term starts in January 2013, and contrary to the current narratives advanced by the Obama and Romney campaigns, the incumbent will find himself with limited room for maneuver on economic policy.
And, if provided with realistic numbers, the next president will soon recognize that the right mix of tax and spending reforms falls into a much narrower range than today’s competing political narratives suggest.
We need to guard against false narratives, not scarce resources.
Rapid advances in technology, particularly in the field of exploration and the ability to extract hydrocarbons in new places, eventually upended such narratives.
Narratives increasingly conflict – and in an astonishingly open and unsettling way.
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