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But, though structural factors and debt overhangs underpin today’s inadequate demand, a purely macroeconomic response might still solve the problem.
Nonetheless, such a purely macroeconomic approach to the battle against deflation would almost certainly not be optimal.
In purely economic terms, one could thus argue that youth unemployment (especially teenage part-time unemployment) is much less important than unemployment among those who are in their prime earning years.
The National Front, the only party to present a coherent, united, and purely negative position on Europe, is predicted by many public opinion polls to win next month’s European Parliament election.
Beyond Asia, Israel is cozying up to Russia, purely on the basis of strategic considerations.
No institutional solution is purely neutral in its effects on relative incomes – and it is relative income and wealth around which political debate typically revolves.
By contrast, most outsiders, asking “What can we do?”, emphasized geographic or cultural factors, or some purely economic “poverty trap,” whose effects should be countered by foreign aid and advice.
Since taking power last April, President Jonathan has pursued a purely military strategy towards the sect.
After Italy’s former central bank governor, Antonio Fazio, flagrantly abused his position to block a takeover of an Italian bank by ABN Amro, member countries agreed that future mergers would be assessed on five objective criteria, the idea being to prevent governments from blocking foreign bids purely for protectionist reasons.
If choices among policies were purely Paretian, i.e., if no one was made worse off by choosing one policy, as against another, the choices involved would indeed be purely "technical."
American and European military and civilian leaders have said repeatedly that there is no purely military solution to ending the war in Afghanistan.
Unsurprisingly, given its purely ideological basis, Arpaio’s pardon was not reviewed in advance by the US Department of Justice, as has become customary over the years.
But the absence of long-term investors revealed that the capital inflow was purely speculative.
But it is becoming increasingly difficult to determine the difference between purely domestic matters and those that require international collective action.
Right wing white politicians, predisposed against taxes and redistribution, use the race issue to secure the votes of poor whites, who otherwise might vote differently on purely economic grounds.
But, as the economist Edwin R. A. Seligman put it in 1889, “Economics is a social science, i.e., it is an ethical and therefore an historical science….It is not a natural science, and therefore not an exact or purely abstract science.”
The problem is that economic and social reform are purely national responsibilities, and do not lie within the competence of the Union; if there is to be economic and social reform in France and Germany, that is a matter exclusively for French and German voters and politicians.
But their purpose is purely instrumental, for to call somebody a “liberal” nowadays in Poland is more pejorative than calling him a “son of a bitch.”
The set of principles that have been proposed to discipline the phenomenon remain purely voluntary.
Of course, Canada’s actions in Ukraine are not purely altruistic.
President Bush may be tempted to believe that Russia's current economic success is purely the result of high world oil prices.
Eliminating the anomalies will merely regularize the reality; the loss of territory will occur purely on paper.
Without support from the ECB, both goals – economic recovery and political leaders’ commitment to structural reform – will remain purely aspirational.
The global powers should openly acknowledge that – whether one likes it or not, and whether it is good policy or not – the legally correct position under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is that Iran does have a right to enrich uranium for purely civilian purposes.
A purely free-market approach to the required energy transition would produce insufficient progress on emissions reductions and leave behind large stranded assets, representing trillions of dollars of wasted investment.
On purely economic grounds, subsidising EU farmers has no justification, and it is an increasing anomaly in a world of global markets and international competition.
At the same time, it would avoid the complications of having multiple Europes – an option that may be attractive to veteran Eurocrats from a purely functional perspective, but soon becomes hopelessly complicated.
While his summit with Kennedy in Vienna earlier in 1961 had done nothing to improve the situation, erecting the Wall on August 13 seemed to him a purely defensive act, not a show of force.
Because the amount of oil was too small to make much difference on the international oil market, the incentive to act appears purely political – a friendly Iranian wink to the US.
But as long as China takes a purely tactical approach, it will reap purely tactical gains.
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