Phenomenon
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Indeed, given populism’s importance as a political phenomenon, that view, along with two others – that populism is somehow a call for direct democracy, and that populists can only protest, but never govern – needs to be challenged.
In July, a report I co-authored for the International News Safety Institute put a name to one such threat, a
phenomenon
known as “moral injury.”
Economists have recently identified a fundamental reason in a
phenomenon
that remains pervasive: the gap in autonomy (or bargaining power) between women and men.
If nothing else, the Donald Trump
phenomenon
shows that old party establishments can be skirted by popular outsiders.
But, like executive stress, this
phenomenon
was a phantom.
This was a generalized phenomenon, not focused on particular countries, because it was still assumed at the time that all eurozone governments would be able to bail out their own banks.
Moreover, it would be wrong to view this as a purely regional
phenomenon
limited to the so-called Arab Spring.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, a keen student of history, is well aware of corruption’s destructive potential – and has confronted the
phenomenon
head-on.
The “availability heuristic” – a pervasive cognitive bias caused by people’s tendency to estimate the likelihood of a
phenomenon
by how easily an example of it comes to mind – routinely clouds the issue.
Nicaragua’s recent economic growth plausibly owes much to a
phenomenon
that would be familiar to the Vietnamese: low-income countries that achieve a modicum of macroeconomic stability often experience a growth spurt.
It is a
phenomenon
that has been revolutionizing journalism and entertainment; and, by helping to overcome coordination challenges, it has also had political consequences in a growing number of countries – all of which means an ever-evolving set of opportunities and risks.
What is less appreciated, however, is the extent to which a broadly similar
phenomenon
may be starting to play out in finance, via a democratization process that could gradually reconfigure a notable part of the institutional landscape, particularly in consumer finance, while challenging regulators to adapt.
But the crypto-currency
phenomenon
is far from the only example, and it is certainly not the most consequential one.
Individuals, companies, and governments would be well advised to devote more time and other resources to comprehending this important and transformative
phenomenon.
No less an ardent secularist than India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, summed up the
phenomenon
seven decades ago: “Facts and fiction are so interwoven together as to be inseparable, and this amalgam becomes an imagined history, which may not tell us exactly what happened but does tell us something equally important — what people believed had taken place, what they thought their heroic ancestors were capable of, and what ideals inspired them.”
But global civilization is such a new
phenomenon
that we do not yet fully understand what is happening to each of us: we cling to old concepts in order to describe our emerging world.
It is now China’s turn to experience this
phenomenon
– only, in China’s case, it is occurring amid broad economic transformation and rapid social change.
Ultimately, Brazilians may just be too unsure about handing power to Silva, who has become a media
phenomenon
but remains an unknown quantity.
Japan’s lost decades are an outgrowth of this phenomenon; the US is now halfway through the first lost decade of its own.
The Internet bubble is the most recent example, but a similar
phenomenon
occurred with the construction of railways more than a century ago.
This is a well-known phenomenon; indeed the study of the market for automotive “lemons” won George Akerlof the Nobel Prize.
Liquidity is just a nice-sounding word to interpret this
phenomenon.
Since then, many calls for coordination have lamented the outbreak of “currency wars,” otherwise known as competitive depreciation – an old
phenomenon
that recalls the tit-for-tat devaluations of the 1930s.
But, with debts in many countries rising to 80% or 90% of GDP, and with today’s low interest rates clearly a temporary phenomenon, trouble is brewing.
For further evidence of this phenomenon, consider Piketty’s own data.
Clearly, economic inequality is a highly complex phenomenon, affected by a wide variety of factors – many of which we do not fully understand, much less control.
Popular dissatisfaction partly reflects a
phenomenon
that invariably arose in numerous conversations with academics, intellectuals, and top officials: the murky frontier of legality currently reigning in China.
But, perhaps as a consequence of concerted efforts to improve the recognition of bipolar disorder, during the past few years we have observed the emergence of an opposite
phenomenon
– over-diagnosis.
If it had turned out that chlorine behaved chemically like bromine, the ozone hole would by then have been a global, year-round phenomenon, not just an event of the Antarctic spring.
Kouchner’s popularity is a curious
phenomenon.
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