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Economics – how markets works, why they sometimes break down, how to estimate the costs of a project properly – ought to be of interest to most people.
To work properly, a commitment strategy should also be costly in case of failure: had Cortés lost, no Spanish soldier would have escaped alive.
In striking the right balance between immediate economic stimulus and medium-term fiscal sustainability, the most urgent step will be to counter properly the looming fiscal cliff, as temporary tax cuts expire and deep, across-the-board spending reductions kick in automatically.
The region is poised to become one of the main suppliers of oil and gas for world energy markets, and its big rivers, if properly managed, have the capacity to provide enough water both for irrigation and for electricity exports to China, India, and Russia.
Likewise, a country’s prosperity can be measured properly only by including elements of moral philosophy and sociology, which fall outside of the boundaries of wealth creation and individual rationality that form the domain of conventional macroeconomic analysis.
Public-sector co-investment properly targeted, however, could shift these incentives by lowering the cost of private technology investment.
For one thing, police officers often lack the resources or incentive to do their jobs properly.
Although regulation poses significant challenges for the staffing industry, among others, properly regulated labor markets are crucial to ensuring that workers are protected and companies remain competitive.
But the economic difficulties are bound to continue, fostering doubts about the currency union’s future – doubts that could become self-fulfilling by undermining the euro’s ability to function properly.
Making matters worse, none of these murders has been properly investigated and none of the perpetrators has been brought to justice.
Governments must put in place stable and supportive policies and regulations, reduce investment risks in the sector, and properly price clean energy.
Its economy, for example, cannot recover properly because consumers, lacking confidence in the ability of their political leaders to solve the economy’s manifold economic problems (budget deficits, pensions, etc.), are saving for a rainy day they feel is just around the corner—and businessmen are reluctant to invest, because they don’t trust government to make the necessary economic reforms.
Democracy can work properly only if all citizens’ operative principle is: “I may hate what you stand for, but as long as you are elected fairly and govern constitutionally, I will defend to the death your right to compete and win.”
The policy consensus has properly focused first on the new risks that were added.
Nevertheless, even with nation-states no longer able to rely on inflation to solve their unbalanced finances, the single currency allows them to use the debt capacity properly belonging to other members of the European Union to extend their spending sprees and postpone political accountability for periods of laissez les bons temps roulés.
If properly designed, they can benefit their members, especially if combined with reduced trade barriers for all trading partners.
CAMBRIDGE – If capitalism’s border is with socialism, we know why the world properly sees the United States as strongly capitalist.
Since the press in all three countries is almost autistic in its refusal to reflect anything but the “national” point of view, these politics are never properly explained.
On paper, at least, this sizeable threat – involving blunt fiscal contraction amounting to some 4% of GDP – should have properly aligned incentives in Washington, DC.
One priority should be the development of an appropriate mechanism for ensuring that revenues from the sale of natural gas are properly accounted for, repatriated, and allocated to meet urgent national needs.
Handled properly, the simultaneous rise of China and India could be good for all countries.
If this mechanism didn't work properly, we might falsely attribute sensations caused by our own actions to something happening in the outside world over which we have no control.
By ignoring the fact that international trade sometimes – certainly not always – involves redistributive outcomes that we would consider problematic at home, they fail to engage the public debate properly.
Better indicators would have revealed the highly negative and possibly long-lasting effects of the deep post-2008 downturn on productivity and wellbeing, in which case policymakers might not have been so enamored of austerity, which lowered fiscal deficits, but reduced national wealth, properly measured, even more.
Without a properly educated populace, it would take decades for developing countries like mine to overcome the profound economic, social, and health challenges that we face.
Of course, much of this growth will depend on the African Union properly implementing its new Continental Free Trade Area, which would create a single market for goods and services, offering corporations many points of entry.
Countries must acknowledge older people’s economic potential, create opportunities for them, and value their economic and social contributions properly.
When properly applied, these measures can encourage consensus building and thwart special interests.
What makes the US Justice Departments attempts to bypass existing agreements so egregious is that EU member states are ready to cooperate swiftly with the US in the fight against crime when requests are made properly.
Europe also failed to react properly when it became obvious that Greece was starting to teeter.
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