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These
restraints
are by no means perfect.
It is easy to imagine how, with a little official encouragement, animus could become action, once the normal
restraints
are gone.
For example, since 2008, when the central authorities tried to boost growth to combat the global crisis, local governments expanded their investment capacity through shadow-banking vehicles that sought to circumvent
restraints
on bank credit.
There will also be new
restraints
on immigration.
To avert a disorderly fall, short-term macroeconomic management requires officially engineered depreciation through administrative methods and
restraints
on external borrowing.
Russia has most of the usual features of rentier states: autocracy, weak political and judicial institutions, arbitrary governance, lack of the rule of law, little transparency,
restraints
on freedom of expression, widespread corruption, cronyism, and nepotism.
An area which we are just beginning to think about, genetic engineering, will require global rules and
restraints.
By one reckoning, close to a quarter of American imports were covered by some form of trade restrictions at the peak of Reagan protectionism (including so called voluntary export restraints).
For all Reagan’s free-trade rhetoric, he freely imposed trade restrictions, including the notorious “voluntary” export
restraints
on automobiles.
Extending this principle to protect environmental, labor, or consumer-safety standards with appropriate
restraints
against abuse might make the world trading system more resistant to ad-hoc protectionism.
In Defense of Economic PopulismCAMBRIDGE – Populists abhor
restraints
on the political executive.
Populists’ aversion to institutional
restraints
extends to the economy, where exercising full control “in the people’s interest” implies that no obstacles should be placed in their way by autonomous regulatory agencies, independent central banks, or global trade rules.
Start with why
restraints
on economic policy may be desirable in the first place.
Economists tend to have a soft spot for such restraints, because policymaking that is fully responsive to the push and pull of domestic politics can generate highly inefficient outcomes.
These are examples of
restraints
on economic policy that take the form of delegation to autonomous agencies, technocrats, or external rules.
But there are other scenarios as well, in which the consequences of
restraints
on economic policy may be less salutary.
In particular,
restraints
may be instituted by special interests or elites themselves, to cement permanent control over policymaking.
Without aggressive US leadership - which means a US executive and congress that believe in free trade - trade liberalization simply will not happen, and there will be more "emergency" tariffs, "extraordinary" quotas and "voluntary" export
restraints.
So it is no surprise that the TPP template includes numerous agendas unrelated to trade, such as labor standards and
restraints
on the use of capital-account controls, many of which preclude China’s accession.
Since the birth of agriculture, human history has been a steady progression of further liberation from the
restraints
of nature.
He dismantled decades of inefficient and ineffective government
restraints
on trade, investment, and entrepreneurship, unleashing more than a decade of the fastest economic growth in India's history.
For the EU’s smaller countries, the lesson is clear: if they do not reduce their budget deficits, there is a high risk of a speculative attack, with little hope for adequate assistance from their neighbors, at least not without painful and counterproductive pro-cyclical budgetary
restraints.
Under that bargain, the bigger states accepted
restraints
on their power in order to increase the weight of the Union as a whole while the smaller ones realized that being part of the club gave them a chance they would not have otherwise, namely to participate in the shaping of common policies.
Additional
restraints
on trade are a serious threat to net-food-importing countries, where governments worry that such measures could lead to starvation.
If a few symbolic concessions (like the voluntary export
restraints
to which Japan agreed in the 1980s) could prevent a collision, China may make them.
Some have compared the negotiated agreements to limit China’s solar-panel exports to past “voluntary export restraints” (VERs) or “orderly marketing arrangements” in the steel and consumer-electronic industries, especially those that Japan agreed to apply to its exports to the US in the 1980’s.
To quote Bill Niskanen, a member of Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers, “the administration imposed more new
restraints
on trade than any administration since Herbert Hoover.”
The most egregious example came in 1981, his first year in office, when the White House forced Japan to adopt so-called voluntary export
restraints
on auto exports to the US.
He famously pressured Japan to accept “voluntary”
restraints
on car exports.
The North American Free Trade Agreement, the WTO (which explicitly banned the “voluntary” export
restraints
used by Reagan), and China’s export boom all followed in the 1990s, as did the removal of remaining restrictions on cross-border finance.
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