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But if the government accompanied effective demand-side measures with active labor-market policies, at least the employment problem could be effectively addressed, and optimal – or at least reasonable – policies for economic restructuring could be designed.
Sarkozy is announcing that he is an economic “regulator,” not a global liberal convinced that today’s balance of market forces is optimal, and thus that no intervention is needed.
Most economists point out that Europe is not an optimal currency area.
The policy and regulatory mistakes that contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis – and thus to the US financial system’s near-meltdown and the eurozone’s travails – have brought the issue of optimal economic regulation and its relation to democracy to the fore once again.
Indeed, according to a computer crunching big data, this would be an optimal decision.
The country’s economy remains unable to make optimal use of relatively high energy-export revenues.
Indeed, one of the main reasons why certain tasks are given to governments, rather than left to the private sector, is that ordinary market mechanisms do not work in the case of so-called “public goods” because the market cannot determine the optimal level of their supply.
The optimal approach would be to implement all of the various legal, tax, and institutional changes needed to take interest rates significantly negative, thereby eliminating the zero bound.
Now, as the pendulum swings back, it risks overshooting the optimal combination of private and public activity and ending up at a simplistic view of government as the problem and the private sector as the solution.
Often, optimal economic policies and best practices are not attainable – or even desirable.
Any transition to peace may well prove ephemeral unless policymakers make political reconciliation and integration – not optimal economic policies – the bedrock priority.
The Enlightenment idea that our System-II rationality can always point to an optimal choice about which every reasonable individual would agree clashes with the widely accepted modern idea that there is a plurality of reasonable choices.
Far from a world of optimal policy, central bankers have been forced into prolonged reliance on imperfect approaches.
Creating the optimal framework for Kaliningrad to participate in the entire region's trade and development is the crucial matter.
They use a scale of one to five, with one representing an optimal level of human rights and five indicating conditions of general terror.
The optimal mix of firms contains a healthy dose of large enterprises, which have the financial and human resources to refine and mass-produce radical innovations, along with newer firms.
While the Nobel Prize committee cited his contributions to macroeconomics, Phelps has made contributions in many areas, including the theory of growth and technological change, optimal taxation, and social justice.
Minimizing the risk of a major war, depression, or financial breakdown thus requires that policymakers find the optimal balance – and that requires more explicit discussion of the efficiency-robustness trade-off.
By highlighting the effectiveness of some options – or pointing to policy choices that require further research – the new research and Nobel laureate findings can assist donors and catalyze optimal choices about where funding should go.
Optimal policy may therefore require a non-transparent fudge; monetary and fiscal “coordination” might mean, after the fact, permanent monetary finance, but without ever openly admitting that possibility.
In that case, Pareto optimality is not socially optimal at all.
While the conditions in Libya were certainly optimal, the situation in Syria is better described as uniquely complicated for any intervention.
No matter how well intentioned and gifted, technocrats cannot ensure proper policies and deliver optimal outcomes.
Thus, capital flows from the core to the periphery would continue to exceed the optimal amount, undermining growth for Europe as a whole.
Indeed, politicians, eager to look good in the eyes of angry voters, are often more interested in setting limits to total compensation than they are in designing the optimal form of compensation.
Thus, even with optimal outcomes, like the avoidance of recession, the economic arguments for large-scale immigration are hardly conclusive.
The end result might not be optimal, but if the Bush administration overplays its hand, it could find itself partnerless in Pakistan.
These redistributive effects are forcing economists to rethink optimal central-bank governance, which has rested on a powerful dogma that emerged in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, in response to high inflation: central bankers need to be independent of the political system.
Indeed, according to one study of the Port of Barcelona, the optimal distribution of container flow in economic and environmental terms would be 37% to the northern European ports and 63% to those in Southern Europe, given the final destination and origin of imported and exported goods.
Difficult as it was for the forces of freedom and democracy to prevail over totalitarianism, it will be even more difficult to win the peace, to develop and enforce optimal patterns for a new life together of states and nations on this planet that addresses the world's present condition.
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