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On the contrary, while Summers, Gordon, Piketty, and Stiglitz each examines the issue from a different perspective, their ideas are complementary – and even mutually reinforcing.
The US should scrutinize each sanctions deployment carefully, and make sure it is reinforcing trust in American leadership – and in the dollar – rather than raising doubts.
But the current specter of economic uncertainty is now reinforcing their nativism and chauvinism, just when similar tendencies are on the rise in the West.
The presence of many women in the magistrature and the police has also contributed significantly, in my view, to reinforcing the system.
Rather than consider, say, eradicating extreme poverty and averting global warming in tandem – and developing mutually reinforcing strategies to achieve these goals – proposed solutions focus on one or the other, undermining their effectiveness.
In this unstable context, leaders in both Iran and Saudi Arabia seem to believe that continued confrontation will help sustain them in power, not least by reinforcing the notion that more change, especially in the form of increased economic or political openness, would be dangerous.
Reinforcing this view are preliminary indications that the European Union may now be willing to consider a zero-tariff automobile initiative.
Reinforcing this “culture of euthanasia” are economic considerations.
The result has been a sort of pax mafiosa: consolidated, regionally legitimized actors, with drug traffickers, old paramilitary groups, new criminal bands, large landholders, and political caciques reinforcing one another.
The two trends are mutually reinforcing: marginalization breeds contempt, and vice versa.
As income inequality has increased – dramatically in some countries, such as the US – it is moving to the forefront of the debate, reinforcing the traditional political divide.
Reinforcing this, the typical career-conscious economist has little incentive to deviate.
China might not agree, but such a move might at least return the issue to the back burner, while reinforcing Japan’s image as a peaceful power.
The extra-territorial use of regulatory and tax powers – particularly by the US, which has the added advantage of issuing the world’s preeminent reserve currency – is reinforcing the view that currencies can be wielded as weapons.
In reneging on promises of reform and further market opening, President Xi Jinping is reinforcing the state sector against foreign competition while ignoring intellectual property theft.
Ethics and power can be mutually reinforcing.
These mutually reinforcing forces can work themselves out in a lengthy process of recession and deleveraging.
What Latin America really needs is more integrated policies aimed at reinforcing the roles that family, the labor market, and the physical and social environment play in the formation of high-quality human capital.
And it identified a set of sound and mutually reinforcing policies.
It is caught in a deflationary spiral, with falling prices and increased anxiety over the economy’s prospects reinforcing each other.
With the sovereign ground quaking, reinforcing a 100-story skyscraper of leverage with an additional floor or two of concrete will not bring back wary tenants.
The cumulative, mutually reinforcing effect of these and other factors has brought about change that only recently seemed unimaginable.
One strategy that combines rationality with the gradualism needed to overcome political resistance would be to increase the EU budget steadily, so that it can ultimately play a macroeconomic role, promoting stability and reinforcing cohesion within the eurozone.
Reinforcing this shift is Turkey’s drift toward authoritarianism, which is undermining the viability of its candidacy for EU membership.
My own five-point plan to achieve this goal begins with a call for the NPT Parties to pursue negotiations in good faith—as required by the treaty—on nuclear disarmament, either through a new convention or through a series of mutually reinforcing instruments backed by a credible system of verification.
German politicians bear the important democratic responsibility of reinforcing this realization and advocating the steps needed to avert a catastrophe.
A citizen who stays home, rather than voting for the candidate he or she prefers, is merely reinforcing the impact of the fat cat who donates to the opposing candidate’s campaign.
The world also wanted to see the US retaking the high road in reinforcing business ethics and integrity – so lacking under the last administration.
Excess capacity and falling growth are mutually reinforcing.
As a result, the Fund must change, reinforcing its supervisory role and its capacity to oversee members’ compliance with their obligation to contribute to financial stability.
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