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Still, if competitiveness underpins the sustainability of trade deficits, there is in
principle
no good economic reason to impose short-run measures – price and cost adjustments – for the purpose of achieving a long-term objective, unless the purpose of price and cost adjustment is indeed to dampen demand.
As professors interested in the issue of climate change – one from a leading university in China, and one from a leading university in the US – we thought that it would be interesting to see if we could agree on a fair
principle
for regulating GHG emissions.
By using the 1850-2050 timespan to calculate the carbon Gini coefficient, we can analyze the
principle
of historical accountability, advocated by countries like China, India, and Brazil, which takes into account past emissions that have had an impact on the atmosphere.
The difference shows that the dispute between developed and developing countries over the
principle
of historical responsibility accounts for about 40% of the global GHG emissions that can occur from 1850 to 2050 without exceeding the carbon budget.
The prevailing approach – the grandfathering
principle
– leads to the largest carbon Gini coefficient, roughly 0.7.
When the de facto grandfathering
principle
is included, our carbon Gini coefficient indicates that as much as 70% of the global carbon budget is still in dispute between rich and poor countries.
If it proves too difficult to reach agreement on a substantive equity principle, then an agreement that some carbon Gini coefficients are simply too extreme to be fair could form the basis of a minimum consensus.
On the other hand, equal per capita annual emissions is based on a
principle
that at least has a claim to be considered fair, and has a Gini coefficient of less than 0.4.
To “buy on the rumor and sell on the news” is a time-honored
principle
of financial speculation.
The answer, in principle, is yes.
The heart of that consensus is the simple
principle
that you don’t need to agree all the time – except on the ground rules about how you can disagree.
In principle, governments, not courts, are best placed to decide which policies will best solve environmental and social problems.
Moreover, the
principle
of equal per capita emissions is generous to the old industrialized countries, because it ignores their historical responsibility for the past emissions that have led to the situation we face today.
Turkey is in a different category, because it is a NATO member and a candidate (at least in principle) for EU membership.
In principle, a country can run a current-account deficit or surplus continuously for decades.
SALZBURG – As war loomed over Kosovo ten years ago, Germany’s then foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, explained that the
principle
that had always governed his involvement in politics was: “Never again war; never again Auschwitz!”
Precisely because it is less ambitious than the
principle
of “just war,” moral indifference has been tremendously successful in mitigating war’s horrors by banning some particularly inhuman types of weapons, forcing armies to protect civilians and accord humane treatment to prisoners of war, banning annexations, etc.
The interdependence of all states – large or small, weak or powerful, democratic or authoritarian – has become the organizing
principle
of today’s international security system.
Following the massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last month, world leaders dashed to the scene, locked arms, and marched in support of freedom of expression as a bedrock
principle
of civilized societies.
The natural next step for many of them should have been to return home and immediately implement that
principle.
Just two years ago, the Council approved a resolution authorizing a military intervention in Libya – the first resolution to implement the “responsibility to protect” (R2P) principle, which the general assembly adopted unanimously in 2005.
Lower long-term interest rates and a weaker dollar are good news for US stock markets, and Trump’s pro-business agenda is still good for individual stocks in principle, even if the air has been let out of the so-called Trump reflation trade.
And its impact on nominal demand can in
principle
be calibrated: A small amount will produce a potentially useful stimulus to either output or the price level, whereas a very large amount will produce excessive inflation.
He has given official propagandists the green light to attack Ahmadinejad and his cronies explicitly, portraying them as people who do not believe in the
principle
of the guardianship of the Shia jurist, the key concept bequeathed by the Islamic Republic’s founder, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The best-known application of this
principle
is federalism.
The new FTT might still face political opposition in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, with its large and influential banking sector, but at least the
principle
of greater tax fairness is high on the European agenda.
While the information revolution could, in principle, reduce large states’ power and increase that of small states and non-state actors, politics and power are more complex than such technological determinism implies.
This
principle
was also at the heart of Willy Brandt’s Neue Ostpolitik in the 1960s and 1970s.
Re-launching conventional arms control should be based on a
principle
that was at the heart of Brandt’s Ostpolitik: security in Europe must not be framed as a permanently adversarial process.
Rather, WTO trade agreements could establish effective links with multilateral and regional development banks, thereby helping to realize the
principle
of closer international coordination set out in the Marrakesh Agreement.
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