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But
optimism
about this turn of events must be tempered with cautious realism.
Given the North Korean regime’s frequent threats to turn American targets, from Hawaii to Washington, into “a sea of fire,”
optimism
is hard to sustain.
The euro, according to this view, was devised in a fit of giddy and irresponsible
optimism
– or, alternatively, panic at the prospect of German hegemony over Europe – in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The bad news is that the IEA’s
optimism
about unconventional sources could be misplaced.
I recently co-authored a study (with Tim Dyson, Leela Visaria and others) that concludes, with modest optimism, that while India can manage its population growth, it also faces a number of major difficulties.
Yet there is a third reality, which provides cause for optimism: the challenges that we face are interrelated, so, if we are smart about it, if we spot and utilize the inter-connections among these problems, solutions to each problem can be solutions to all.
But simplistic free-market
optimism
is misplaced for at least four reasons.
But
optimism
foundered over the course of 2013, and frustration soared.
Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty in the mid-1960’s reflected an era of national
optimism
and the belief that society should make collective efforts to solve common problems, such as poverty, pollution, and health care.
Another reason for
optimism
about the US and world economies is rooted in the Trump administration’s $1 trillion plan to rebuild America’s infrastructure.
As for the civil war between Assad and his opponents, the Vienna talks offer reason for cautious
optimism.
From this perspective, there is good reason for optimism, especially given accelerated growth in China’s services sector – one of the key building blocks of a consumer-led rebalancing.
Though many countries have enacted laws forbidding the use--and abuse--of children in the work force,
optimism
about the conditions faced by working children is unwarranted.
The well of money may be running dry, and so, too, may be America’s legendary
optimism
and hope.
LONDON – Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election on May 7 triggered a surge of
optimism
about the future of the European Union, and the eurozone in particular.
But, on the issue of mass-atrocity crimes – where the international community has long had good reason for shame – real
optimism
is now justified.
History provides grounds for
optimism.
For this reason alone, South Africans have cause for
optimism.
Seeing the excitement that can be generated in young people through events like science festivals and networks of science centers gives rise to cautious
optimism
– provided we seize the diversity of opportunities that informal learning offers.
As the economy struggled,
optimism
gave way to a more defensive and insular view that values self-reliance.
Indeed, the experience with SARS in Toronto, where cases escaped detection and led to a second outbreak, stands as a warning against excessive
optimism
about the apparent control of the larger and more geographically dispersed outbreaks in Taiwan and mainland China.
The fact that a country as troubled as Nigeria could pull off such an important feat is cause for celebration and provides grounds for optimism, not only in the fight against polio, but for global health efforts in general.
In his groundbreaking General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes referred to “animal spirits” as “the characteristic of human nature that a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism, rather than mathematical expectations, whether moral or hedonistic or economic.”
As the Nobel laureate Robert J. Shiller has shown,
optimism
can evolve into “irrational exuberance,” whereby investors take asset valuations to levels that are divorced from economic fundamentals.
After 38 years of conflict, Colombians’
optimism
is striking.
That is no small reason for
optimism
in a country torn apart by decades of violence.
Yet there is little ground for genuine
optimism.
My
optimism
is based partly on the history of the United States, founded by leaders who were highly concerned about corruption; by some accounts, they devised the Constitution with the specific goal of vaccinating the new republic against vice.
Yet there are reasons for
optimism.
Rather than a boon, Hope signified an inability to look ahead or choose sensibly among possible outcomes; she represented wishful thinking, not life-sustaining
optimism.
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