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Japan is no longer such a closed society, yet even people with a short history of democracy are prone to believe that they are victims of unseen forces.
They are prone to attribute concerns about globalization to crass protectionist motives or ignorance, even when there are genuine ethical issues at stake.
In fact, experience in recent decades confirms what should have been obvious from previous centuries: as countries grow and accumulate savings, they become increasingly prone to financial collapse.
Just s the Left has become more disciplined, the right has become prone to factionalism and ideological fantasy.
A single European financial market without a credible banking resolution mechanism will always be prone to crisis.
After they were told in the 1960’s that “the position of women in the movement is prone,” they generated “second wave” feminism – a movement born of women’s new skills and old frustrations.
They can help to expose the truth about life in Daesh – that it is brutal, corrupt, and prone to internal purges – in several ways, including by drawing attention to defections.
As a result, post-crisis economies are far more vulnerable to shocks and prone to relapses than might otherwise be the case.
But this would amount to admitting defeat – something that Putin is not prone to do.
To be sure, finding an alternative location for the US base is extremely difficult, as Japanese are as prone to NIMBY (not in my backyard) reactions as anyone else.
But it won Powell a dedicated following among working-class voters experiencing hard economic times, discomforted by the “invasion” of their neighborhoods by Asian and Caribbean immigrants, and prone to conflate the two phenomena.
And under volatile conditions, they are prone to face runs from fickle institutional investors, wary of rolling over their credit lines.
The problem is not just that they need to wean themselves from their reliance on fickle capital inflows and commodity booms, which have often left them vulnerable to shocks and prone to crises.
And he is pursuing various forms of financial deregulation – either through legislation, or by appointing regulators who are prone to capture – that will favor big banks.
My research with Maggie McMillan of Tufts University and the International Food Policy Research Institute shows that countries with a strong comparative advantage in natural resources are particularly prone to fall into the trap of growth-reducing structural change.
Furthermore, they are prone to frequent drought, which reduces their output significantly, leaving many as little more than decorative infrastructure landmarks.
Moreover, metallic money was prone to unpredictable shifts in value with the discovery of new supplies.
Those who see dark American forces behind all that is wrong with the world, from financial crashes to the violence in Ukraine, are prone to detect the malign hand of Israeli or even Jewish lobbies in every US policy.
Moreover, depleted aquifers near coastlines are prone to contamination from saltwater, rendering land barren.
Pakistan suffers from internal strife and is prone to seeing conspiracies against it that include virtually all of its neighbors and often the US.
But China’s economy remains prone to considerable risks.
Indeed, without adequate regulation, they are prone to excess.
A second insight from the case of the eurozone, advanced by the economist Paul de Grauwe, is that currency unions can be prone to self-reinforcing liquidity crises, because some vulnerable parts (Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy at various points) lack their own currencies.
With Trump, this dynamic exists within a single personality that is prone to violent, unpredictable swings between openness and anger.
The sheer magnitude of the Enlightenment’s achievements tends to be undervalued, because we are prone to remembering and normalizing catastrophes rather than quotidian improvements.
Already weak and inefficient, prone to corruption, politicisation, lack of co-ordination between departments, and outright intimidation of its officials, judicial systems across the isthmus have been an easy target for organised crime.
For starters, the Sprague-Dawley strain of rats that he used is naturally prone to tumors.
Like other humans, social scientists are prone to over-confidence in their preferred model of the day.
Europeans are particularly prone to see things this way - and to see a powerful government as the sheriff to keep the cowboys from shooting up the town.
But a carbon tax is far more transparent and potentially less prone to the pitfalls seen in international carbon-quota trading.
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