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But the inconsistency between rhetoric and reality is long-standing: protectionism expanded under Reagan, including through the imposition of so-called voluntary export
restraints
on Japanese cars.
Legal
restraints
on humanitarian intervention are necessary because dictators too often use it to justify criminal aggression.
Nevertheless, the administration refuses to be held back by institutional
restraints.
The World Economy In 1996CAMBRIDGE: The end of decades of inflation and the onset of major long term fiscal
restraints
are the most striking features of the world economy today.
So will we see a new Merkel, a chancellor who, freed from the
restraints
of SPD in the governing coalition, will be more decisive, reformist, and willing to take political risks?
They include the authority to impose taxes and
restraints
on individuals and private entities through criminal, administrative, and civil law, as well as the state’s obligation to provide public goods and services.
South Korea, which has agreed to adopt “voluntary export restraints” in exchange for an exemption from US steel tariffs, is asking its domestic producers’ association to allocate export quotas among its members.
Indeed, WTO rules prohibit export subsidies – which, economically speaking, are enrich-thy-neighbor policies – while placing no direct
restraints
on export taxes.
In a sense, they, as much as Krupp or Opel (if not more so), represent a type of capitalism that is being untethered from all necessary
restraints.
Democracy, in the sense of majority rule, needs restraints, just like any other system of government.
What is steadily falling away is not democracy, but the
restraints
that de Tocqueville thought were essential to make liberal politics work.
In the early United States, James Madison and the new country’s other founders saw that neither leaders nor followers would be angels, and that institutions must be designed to reinforce
restraints.
Today, these
restraints
are in the process of being abandoned.
The role of these nations and the IAEA is not to prevent India’s development of nuclear power or even nuclear weapons, but rather to assure that it proceeds as almost all other responsible nations on earth do, by signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty and accepting other reasonable
restraints.
Nuclear powers must show leadership, by restraining themselves and by curtailing further departures from the NPT's international
restraints.
In order to reduce the bilateral trade surplus, Japan introduced so-called voluntary export restraints, which hollowed out its real economy, while providing excessive protection to its non-tradable sectors.
To ease trade frictions, unlike Japan’s voluntary export restraints, China’s leaders have promised to increase imports and open up the domestic market, with President Xi Jinping predicting $8 trillion worth of merchandise imports within the next five years.
The problem is that WTO rules do not allow these so-called voluntary export
restraints.
Voluntary export
restraints
were widely used in the 1980s – often by the EU itself, to counter competition from East Asia.
The gain to European steel producers should more than cover the cost of lawyers’ fees to defend voluntary export
restraints
at the WTO.
In reality, Japan is not ready for this, because it still strongly adheres to “self-imposed restraints” against “influence over other countries in security and defense,” including weapons exports.
Europe accepts the arrangement and responds with similar trade
restraints.
But even this may not be enough, because each legal reform is answered by entrepreneurial ingenuity on the part of those who want to circumvent the new
restraints.
In the eurozone, a sudden stop of capital flows to the periphery and the fiscal
restraints
imposed, with Germany’s backing, by the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the ECB have been a massive impediment to growth.
Why expose something to public scrutiny and possible
restraints
when you can usher it in through the back door by pretending it will do some good?
As a result of the Trump administration’s abandonment of Obama-era
restraints
on the use of airpower, a US-led coalition “victory” in Mosul, Iraq, caused thousands of civilian casualties and left a pile of rubble.
But that one is easy: it should be used with
restraints
designed to minimize civilian casualties.
Official corruption, insecure property rights, stifling regulatory restraints, weak payment discipline, poor logistics and distribution, widespread counterfeiting, and vulnerability to other forms of intellectual-property theft: all of these obstacles increase transaction costs and make it difficult for entrepreneurs to thrive in domestic markets.
The only important
restraints
on this managerial freedom are concerns about worker morale and its impact on productivity, profits and stock valuation.
What has emerged since the social upheavals of the 1960’s and the financial “Big Bangs” of the 1980’s is a new type of liberalism that not only lacks a clear moral basis, but also regards most government
restraints
as attacks on individual freedom.
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