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How, moreover, can we accommodate individuals’ rights and liberties while giving appropriate recognition to their overall
preferences?
Because their
preferences
and circumstances don’t in fact shift from day to day, and because they do try to get the best bargain when they shop around, their behavior will exhibit a high degree of regularity.
But Trump – who has also refused to exclude permanently Japan, the European Union, and Canada from his administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs – pays no mind to his allies’
preferences.
First, institutions of representation, such as political parties, parliaments, and electoral systems, are needed to elicit popular
preferences
and turn them into policy action.
While it’s true that tax
preferences
might yield slightly higher private savings, the loss of tax revenues would more than offset the gains, thereby actually reducing national savings.
The military, after decades of rule, has dismantled all forms of political organization – parties, trade unions, and student associations – leaving a Pakistani society immobilized, apathetic, and incapable of articulating its
preferences.
In every US presidential election in modern times, America’s friends and allies have had their private
preferences.
This is especially true when it comes to human resources, but public-sector resources also tend to respond to the same
preferences
and values over the longer term, regardless of the imperfections in our mechanisms of social choice.
Given this, governments should devote resources to reducing inequality, regardless of the shifting
preferences
of the average citizen.
But whether bucking revealed
preferences
embedded in private and public investment choices would make us individually and collectively “better off” is dubious, at best.
If we want market-determined rewards to equate with “just” rewards, we either have to abolish markets – the socialist solution – or restructure individual
preferences.
Although market value may be determined by consumer demand, as economic theory has it, these
preferences
are themselves the result of socially structured gender biases.
This sounds reasonable enough, until one recognizes the lengths to which radical feminists are willing to go to re-engineer tastes and
preferences.
The time is ripe to gather and coordinate recent economic insights on motivation, preferences, measurement, and modeling, and lay the groundwork for systematic, rather than symptomatic, change.
Europe does not have an uncontested leader to impose policy
preferences
on everyone else.
But instead of becoming a responsible stakeholder in the liberal international order, it seems to have chosen to focus on creating parallel governance structures, which it can shape according to its own
preferences.
This combination of rigidity and plasticity enables democratic regimes to adapt to shifts in citizens’
preferences.
Today, the defunct economic theory is that a rapid shift in
preferences
– colorfully called a “reduced appetite for risk” – is the key reason behind the current sub-prime mortgage and financial crisis.
The key to understanding financial markets, especially when they are as unsettled as they have been in recent weeks, is not a change in preferences, but inherent imperfection of knowledge and altered expectations concerning the future course of macroeconomic fundamentals.
While people in a wide range of countries accept some degree of market-determined income variation, based on differential talents and personal preferences, there are limits.
Instead of focusing on large-scale, one-size-fits-all production, firms must use the data they receive to glean more detailed insights about consumers’
preferences
and expectations – and expand their portfolios to include the niche products that consumers crave.
This requires a process in which experts – whose competence and honesty are trusted – inform decision-makers of the available options for meeting voters’ stated
preferences.
Substantial differences among and within Africa’s countries imply the need for a much deeper and finer-grained understanding of consumer
preferences
and affordability profiles by product category.
Perhaps German central bankers sense a longer-term shift in international
preferences
away from the dollar and want to be ready in some fashion.
There are no psychological preferences, natural-resource constraints, or technological factors that make investing in private enterprises riskier than it was five years ago.
Most countries have similar tax
preferences
for debt over equity, thereby encouraging financial and other corporations to use more debt, as financial analysts have long known.
But
preferences
are skewed towards the free market for the same groups that benefited from reform.
Of course, all democratic societies feature spirited debate about collective
preferences.
This makes it difficult for right-wing parties to combine their usual rhetoric of economic liberalism with nationalism; or for left-wing parties to reconcile their traditional
preferences
of internationalism and statism.
US leaders understood that these institutions enabled America to pursue its own foreign-policy
preferences
and commercial interests in a more open and stable global economy.
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