Privilege
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British Home Secretary Theresa May has said that citizenship is “a privilege, not a right.”
It is hard to argue that all developing countries should enjoy the indefinite
privilege
of opting out of the WTO’s general obligations for all sectors of their economies.
The
privilege
that government debt enjoys under current banking regulations should be eliminated, and an independent banking regulator, separate from the European Central Bank, should be established within the eurozone.
And the United States has displayed no willingness to renounce its anachronistic
privilege
of nominating the World Bank’s president.
Of course, China stands to gain much from the renminbi’s emergence as an alternative international reserve currency, sharing in the “exorbitant privilege” that the US currently enjoys by virtue of the dollar’s global status.
(The exception to this rule is the United States, which enjoys what Charles de Gaulle called its “exorbitant privilege” of having its foreign debt denominated in its own currency.)
But, above all, it is an honor and a
privilege
to play such a role in our society, and I know that the vast majority of officials, legislators, judges, and civil servants with whom I’ve worked would agree.
Because the ECB, together with national central banks, buys government bonds in proportion to each country’s share of ECB capital, the PSPP cannot
privilege
the countries that are under stress.
Former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing once famously complained about America’s “exorbitant privilege.”
But, between the sub-prime US mortgage crisis and the dollar’s ongoing decline, America’s exorbitant
privilege
now looks a bit shaky.
Lagarde is, after all, the 11th consecutive European to hold the post, a
privilege
that has become hard to justify in today’s world.
But the purpose of ending this Western
privilege
is to make the leadership selection process one that is based on merit, not political considerations.
Are we perhaps pursuing too mechanical an ideal which confuses the absence of
privilege
and disadvantage with the absence of diversity?
An international elite of Olympic officials arose, living in a self-contained bubble of wealth and
privilege.
That is why the British have mixed the authority of elected politicians with that of aristocratic
privilege.
While the
privilege
of issuing international-reserve currencies allows developed countries to accrue international seigniorage, it does not mean that they should use the revenue in whatever ways they wish.
Charging banks for the
privilege
of holding reserves raises their cost of doing business.
There is certainly nothing wrong with that, but it does seem odd that customers are effectively paying a firm for the
privilege
of donating their DNA to its database.
It may in the near future no longer be seen as the anchor of the international monetary system, bringing to an end to what Valéry Giscard d’Estaing famously called the “exorbitant privilege” enjoyed by the US as a result of the dollar’s centrality in international trade.
Men and women had not risked their lives simply to return to the old days of class
privilege
and social deprivation.
Taliban men no doubt believe that the subjugation of women is a cultural privilege, as well as a religious duty.
Financial volatility rose, unsettling investors; stocks went on a rollercoaster ride, ending substantially lower; government bond yields plummeted, and lenders found themselves in the unusual position of having to pay for the
privilege
of holding an even bigger amount of government debt (almost one-third of the total).
First, there is every sign that the Europeans will use Rato’s sudden announcement as an excuse to avoid a serious debate about relinquishing their
privilege
of always appointing the Fund’s head True the US was able to essentially blackmail the world into choosing yet another American to replace Wolfowitz, by balking at efforts to push him out peaceably.
Just about any woman who was not born into privilege, has small children at home, and is not a cannibal or a Satanist would elicit initial roars of approval from women in general, and surely from a group that has been silenced and trivialized for so long.
In fact, it signals the opposite--that the wider society itself is a hotbed of knowledge production, over which universities do not enjoy any special
privilege
or advantage.
In the former phase, academia generates new forms of social advantage and privilege, while in the latter phase, it eliminates them.
As Managing Director of the IMF, I have had the
privilege
of working closely with Jim Wolfensohn, seeing up close a man with an extraordinary mission: the sustainable reduction of global poverty.
Addressing the complex roots of current economic and social challenges – the UK and France, for example, suffer substantially from hereditary
privilege
and frozen class systems – is a lot harder than decrying the EU as a villainous behemoth.
For many people, this had the ring of liberation – from overregulated markets, overbearing trade unions, and class
privilege.
For example, governments focused solely on improving “labor-market flexibility” have pursued policies that
privilege
employers’ interests over those of workers, not least by undercutting workers’ ability to organize.
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