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Meanwhile, the headline unemployment rate does not reflect the growing number of Americans who have left the work force – a
phenomenon
vividly reflected by the decline in the labor participation rate to just 63.2%, a 35-year low.
Instead, populism will look more like an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon, motivated less by immigration and economic policy than by conservative cultural attitudes among Trump and Brexit voters and the unusual demographic alliances pitting old against young, rural against urban, and university graduates against less educated voters in the US and Britain.
The problem is that words like “show” and “scheme” suggest a deliberate creation, rather than a widespread social
phenomenon
that is not directed by any impresario.
This
phenomenon
is not visible yet, because analysts focus on popular bloggers and online media sites competing with traditional media.
The departure of Americans from the job market reflects what economists call the “discouraged worker”
phenomenon.
This phenomenon, too, can be blamed largely on distortionary policies.
In a recent book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the economist Thomas Piketty highlights the
phenomenon
of “meritocratic extremism” – the culmination of a century-long passage from the old inequality, characterized by inherited wealth and discreet lifestyles, to the new inequality, with its outsize bonuses and conspicuous consumption.
China’s massive arms build-up shows that economic power without military power is only a temporary
phenomenon.
Given this, political engagement naturally tends to pull parties toward moderation, a
phenomenon
we have seen time and again in the Arab world.
The effort to eliminate markets by eliminating their basic conditions is a
phenomenon
of the twentieth century.
There is also a surprising
phenomenon
that favors everyone: prices of technology-based capital assets imported by Latin America have been falling throughout the past decade.
Another
phenomenon
is linked to the first.
In East Asia, a host of countries produce components for assembly in China (or elsewhere in the region) and subsequent re-export; in Central and Eastern Europe, a similar
phenomenon
occurs with Germany as the hub; and, of course, in North America, both Canada and Mexico are increasingly integrated into the US market.
This is in line with the so-called Solow computer paradox: productivity gains lag behind technological advances – a notable
phenomenon
during the digital revolution.
Of course, elections that lead to illiberal outcomes, and even to despotism, are not a new
phenomenon.
But another new aspect of this
phenomenon
are opposition forces that are willing to attempt to negate such machinations by the party in power.
In other words, intra-Africa migration is not only a human and social phenomenon; it is also a vital ingredient of growth.
Thus, the joint declaration incorrectly treats “the rare doers of kindness” as a “common phenomenon,” and the “widespread events of [Poles] handing over [Jews]” as “rarities.”
One that has been largely neglected in the debate about Piketty’s book is the tendency of the superrich to marry one another – an increasingly common
phenomenon
as more women join the group of high earners.
All available studies show that “welfare tourism” is a limited phenomenon, and that immigration fosters economic growth.
The Karnataka elections even gave rise to a new
phenomenon
with the creation of the Bangalore Political Action Committee, led by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the chairman of the Bangalore-based biotechnology company Biocon.
With sufficient data, we do have methods to identify the likely causes of an economic
phenomenon.
The return of ideology is not only a right-wing phenomenon, and it is not confined to the United States.
Those imbalances reflect a much broader phenomenon: globalization.
But this
phenomenon
has been overestimated.
Two approaches have been pursued so far to help communities affected by this
phenomenon.
Immigration is another
phenomenon
that must be carefully managed.
Academic scholars and political observers debate whether globalization is a real
phenomenon
or a slogan; whether globalization is beneficial or harmful; and whether globalization is a fragile process that could be reversed or a robust process likely to gather force in the coming years.
(The precise numbers are different in other industrialized countries, but the rise of finance is a general phenomenon.)
In the 1970’s, the Western world was confronted with a unique phenomenon: simultaneous recession and rising inflation.
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