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But these remarkable individuals typically acted on their own, against prevailing social norms.
Moreover, given the prevailing assumption that public debt was risk-free, banks were not bound by the usual rules against “large exposures”: they could accumulate as much exposure to any one government as they wanted.
The UN to the Rescue on Climate ChangePARIS – The United Nations’ General Assembly is the world’s only body in which all countries vote, with majority rule prevailing.
It requires far too much socioeconomic and political regimentation to be workable under prevailing conditions in the Arab world.
Instead, it raised global asset prices to levels even higher than those prevailing before 2008.
The result is a curiously Indian institution, whose prevailing standards of behavior would not be tolerated in most parliamentary systems.
All that can be said is that the processes involved must, being chemical, have been highly deterministic and reproducible, that is , bound to occur under prevailing conditions.
But this view ignores the possibility that the array of choices offered by chance to natural selection may be sufficiently extensive to allow an optimal or near-optimal solution to emerge, in which case the process is actually close to obligatory and reproducible under the prevailing conditions.
After prevailing in World War II, the US immediately and undeniably dominated the globe.
The extent to which China will engage Afghanistan positively will depend in large part on whether China rids itself of the prevailing zero-sum mindset and facilitates America’s military withdrawal by doing what it can to stabilize the country.
Readers learned of alternative approaches to forecasting inflation, of the prevailing low level of inflation expectations, and of the diminished pressure that resource slack places on costs (or a less reliable Phillips’ curve).
On the contrary, the prevailing view was that people ought to be left to look after their own affairs.
I blame the prevailing attitude, which holds that the unhampered pursuit of self-interest will bring about an eventual international equilibrium.
The first – declining economic growth, to less than 1%, on average, across the region – has been discussed at length, with the prevailing explanation being that China’s slowing economic growth has suppressed commodity prices and, thus, Latin America’s export revenues.
As it stands, while everyone agrees that researchers need extensive training, the prevailing assumption is that great teachers are born and great teaching just happens – a view that is hampering education at all levels.
And under stigmatized capitalism, the prevailing zeitgeist has hobbled policymakers’ efforts to address the legacy of the twin-balance-sheet problem, which, in turn, has constrained growth.
Indeed, when North Korea approached Swedish academics to request training in business management, they insisted that the training take place in conditions as near to those prevailing in North Korea as possible.
Now, as we enter the third decade, the prevailing mood seems to be one of increasing political radicalization.
My views are far from unique, but they are at variance with the prevailing mood.
Given the high risk premiums currently prevailing in Europe, this percentage is too low to constitute a level playing field.
And even investment in the pre-crisis period was unimpressive, given low prevailing interest rates.
The prevailing strategy in Europe remains simply to force internal devaluation on the southern countries, with excessive austerity aimed at causing severe wage and price deflation.
Many outsiders worry about Japan’s debt, which is easy to service at the low interest rates prevailing today, but would not be if rates increased to more normal levels.
Wages in Korea, indeed, became twice that prevailing in Britain and banks remained under the thumb of government.
The Great Depression produced more alarming outcomes, as the political response to deflation throughout Central Europe and Latin America destroyed the prevailing order, including several democracies.
An open society does not treat prevailing arrangements as sacrosanct; it allows for alternatives when those arrangements fail.
But there is an iron clad requirement for coordination to be genuinely effective: both central banks must see prevailing exchange rates as being in conflict with their domestic policy objectives and share the view that intervention can have a sustainable impact on the exchange rate.
But in today’s prevailing conditions, we cannot afford this perspective.
Europe’s obsession with top-down reforms is rooted in prevailing analyses of the causes of the euro crisis.
Indeed, these reports challenge the prevailing approach, which has left more than one billion people living below the poverty line (defined as the purchasing-power-parity equivalent of $1.25 per day in 2005), and has failed to prevent economic growth from stalling in most countries.
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