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We know from research in the economics of imperfect information that markets run into trouble when what is bought and sold cannot be observed or measured.
Like many European countries, the ECFR’s Scorecard observed that Germany’s efforts to deal with the economic crisis left little room for foreign affairs.
Similar burdens can be observed in Japan and Brazil, indicating a substantial need for reform there as well.
As Michael Ignatieff has wisely observed, Syria’s crisis has revealed that this is “the moment in which the West should see that the world has truly broken into two.
As Lord Ashley observed in his diary: “[Peel] led the Tories and followed the Whigs.”
After all, as Louis Brandeis observed: For good or ill, “our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher.”
Others have become entangled in methodological issues – “mistaking beauty for truth,” as Paul Krugman once observed – or have placed too much faith in human rationality and market efficiency.
When Merkel observed that “we Europeans must really take our fate into our own hands,” she was stating a plain fact.
As Yaslem Saeed bin Ishaq, whose son was killed in a US drone strike in Wadi Sir on August 1, 2013, observed, “They just kill.
In many other parts of the world, however, we have observed a rather curious and unwelcome development in recent decades – structural change in the wrong direction.
While touring WWI battlefields, Macron observed that “peace in Europe is precarious,” and that “we will not protect Europeans unless we decide to have a true European army.”
Some clinical trials were terminated prematurely because harmful effects of antioxidant supplements were observed.
After all, as the columnist David Brooks recently observed, “If there is one soft power gift that America does possess, it is the tendency to imagine new worlds.”
This behavior could also be observed after the creation of the ECB, which has inherited the Bundesbank's habits about interventions.
Economies become more productive either by doing what they do more efficiently, or by shifting resources into new sectors in which productivity is higher – a process that can be observed (or not) by looking at export diversification.
According to former US President Jimmy Carter, the election was the most “transformational” of the many polls he has observed around the world.
The Age of Sustainable DevelopmentNEW YORK – A half-century ago, John F. Kennedy observed that, “man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.”
In the Andaman Sea, thousands of migrants have been stranded on boats without a port of disembarkation, while traffickers hold them for ransom; similar vulnerabilities have been observed in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and the Central American corridor.
Putin’s Scare TacticsCOSTA SMERALDA, SARDINIA – “Every nation gets the government it deserves,” observed Joseph de Maistre, the Sardinian kingdom’s diplomatic envoy to the Russian empire, some 200 years ago.
Finally, and ironically, because so many Palestinians have worked in Israel, spent time in Israeli prisons, often speak and read Hebrew, and are regularly exposed to the Israeli media and the rough and tumble of Israeli politics, Palestine has more young citizens than any other Arab country who have observed life in a democracy at first hand.
The Capitalist Threat to CapitalismLONDON – Winston Churchill famously observed that democracy is the worst form of government – apart from all the others that have been tried.
As the Nobel laureate economist Paul Samuelson observed in 1948, international trade leads to factor-price equalization, with wages, adjusted for skill levels, equilibrating across countries.
We know that the universe today contains a form of matter, the so-called dark matter, that is different from anything we have ever observed.
We have observed the effects of the “water” that we use to simplify our equations – it slows down particles, and makes them heavy – but we do not know what it is made out of.
A couple of the predicted effects have already been observed (for experts: tiny neutrino masses and unification of couplings).
But, as Carl Sagan observed, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” while here the existing evidence is still circumstantial.
Saudi Arabia’s Perilous PivotJERUSALEM – “The most dangerous moment for a bad government,” the nineteenth-century French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed, “is usually when it begins to reform itself.”
In testimony to the UK Parliament, Volcker gently observed that “Internationalizing some of the basic regulations [would make] a level playing field.
A number of commentators have observed that the global financial crisis was good for economic history, because it directed attention to previous crises and to the insights that could be gleaned from studying them.
Perhaps today's greatest threat to freedom comes from an unholy alliance between government and business, such as in Fujimori's Peru, Mugabe's Zimbabwe, Mahatir's Malaysia, and the oligarchs' Russia, where the appearances of democratic process are often observed but state powers are diverted to benefit private interests.
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