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If they were the most important factor governing the success or failure of employee ownership, however, we would expect employee ownership to be most common in those industries in which workers are unusually difficult to monitor, are relatively immobile, or are extensively unionized.

Employee ownership has long been successful even in industries -- such as plywood manufacturing and investment banking -- that are both volatile and relatively capital intensive.

Last year, Putin reorganized the RIA Novosti news agency, firing 40% of its staff, including its relatively independent management.

They are also relatively cheap and easy to deliver.

This was always true in the so-called developing (and often relatively poor) world.

But now it is also the case in the relatively well-off mature democracies, as well as among those countries that have been growing fastest.

Commodities like sugar, soybeans, oil, and gas are relatively standardized products, meaning that they can be traded instantly and globally through the use of derivative contracts.

Asking shareholders and management to pay a relatively small amount is entirely fair and appropriate under these circumstances.

Social media are another powerful and relatively cheap tool to reach millions of people.

The emphasis should be on building coalitions among the relatively moderate states that are threatened by radical Islamist forces, and on working hard to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons – a goal that is in the interests of many in the region.

Fortunately, Chinese households’ relatively low leverage means that the kind of balance-sheet damage that occurred in some advanced countries during the crisis, leading to a huge drop in demand, is unlikely, even if real-estate prices continue to decline.

The eurozone faces the specter of another round of stagnation;Japan has slipped into recession; and the United States, despite relatively strong performance in the latter part of 2014, has raised concerns worldwide with its exit from quantitative easing.

Though the EU as a whole maintains a balanced energy mix, with supply divided relatively evenly among gas, coal, oil, renewables, and nuclear generation, individual countries are often excessively dependent on a single source and, more dangerously, a single supplier: Russia.

The Commission was originally created as a technocratic body relatively independent of either national or supranational control - correctly so, given its mandate.

That dynamic characterized the 30 years or so after World War II: growth rates were relatively high across a wide range of countries; their benefits were broadly shared within countries; and the rise of developing countries reduced global inequality.

Even though the global economy today looks relatively robust in general, international economic cooperation is more fragile now than at any moment in the post-1945 world.

Despite a moribund economy, Castro still delivers what the majority of Latin American residents fail to get - free health care and education and a relatively drug- and crime-free environment.

Certainly, a few countries have struck a fair balance, addressing violence for a relatively small outlay; so there are ways to reduce unnecessary expenditure.

Many of the conditions needed for a democratic transformation – a vibrant and organized civil society, a relatively free press, and well-respected opposition figures, as well as a variety of battered but breathing political parties of different persuasions – are already present.

Prior to the economic reforms of the 1980s, corruption in China was relatively petty, as the market’s limited size constrained opportunities for administrative abuse.

After all, the Italians, Germans, and French work hard and well over a relatively small number of hours, resulting in high hourly productivity and wages – higher than in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Circumstantial evidence is their preference for record-setting vacations – and relatively low labor-force participation.

In addition, the excessive violence in Libya might send the message to other peoples in the region that the cost of change is too high to pay, and that the relatively peaceful transitions seen in Egypt and Tunisia might not be replicable.

“Banks will need to hold more capital” is a common refrain, describing efforts by regulators – and, in the United States, some legislators – to require that financial institutions fund themselves with relatively more equity and less debt.

Higher capital requirements mean, in essence, more equity funding and – by implication, under any sensible definition – relatively less debt for a given balance-sheet size.

This is an attractive and sensible policy, because today’s global banks have relatively small slivers of equity underpinning their operations.

When one is looking for something relatively rare (whether cancer or terrorists), it is wise to remember that a positive result is often false.

This government’s move represents a radical change of course, following three decades of relatively liberal economic policymaking, during which the authorities have permitted private-sector foreign-exchange transactions and even capital flight.

While the EU is unlikely to ever achieve independence from Russian energy, it can improve its ability to cope with dependence by finding what Austria-Hungary lacked: a source of leverage to maintain the relationship on relatively equal terms.

High taxation supports comprehensive national health care, education, pensions, and other social services, resulting in low levels of poverty and a relatively narrow income gap between the richest and poorest households.

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