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In fact, a reversal seems to be underway.
This reversal became apparent in June, when Britons – including those who benefit significantly from the existing open economic and financial system – voted to leave the European Union, based on what might be called the sovereignty principle.
As inequality across countries has declined, inequality within countries has surged – to the point that the reversal of priorities was probably inevitable.
Now that the reversal has arrived, so have the consequences.
In an ironic reversal of the continent’s north-south divide, his views are influencing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s position on the need to stimulate growth in Europe.
We all stand to lose from a reversal of the economic and social progress made across Africa in the past decade.
The RMB’s reversal of fortune reflects four factors in particular.
The fourth factor is the reversal of globalization itself.
That reversal is one of the great under-reported stories of 2011 (and of the preceding two years), and the numbers are startling.
A powerful factor underlying the drop in cross-border capital flows is the dramatic reversal of European financial integration.
Then there is the question of how emerging-market policymakers respond to the turbulence: Will they raise rates to stem inflationary depreciation and capital outflows, or will they cut rates to boost flagging GDP growth, thus increasing the risk of inflation and of a sudden capital-flow reversal?
Thus, the Fed’s withdrawal from QE would be accompanied by a capital-flow reversal, increasing borrowing costs and hampering GDP growth.
Of course, the Fed’s policy reversal could hurt countries that maintain fixed – or, like China, “managed floating” – exchange rates.
Indeed, the US is seen as practically complicit in inciting a monumental reversal of Islam’s fortunes, the Shia revival.
But such arguments immediately run up against the objection that any standstill or reversal on trade agreements would harm the world’s poorest, by diminishing their prospect of escaping poverty through export-led growth.
It took less than two years for the threat of exclusion to force a complete reversal in the policies of the Athens government.
This reversal is consistent with the pattern established elsewhere, including on the Yangtze: China temporarily suspends a controversial plan after major protests in order to buy time while public passions cool, before resurrecting the same plan.
Spotting this reversal, the Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence has argued that the world is poised for The Next Convergence.
Even a partial reversal of this long regressive trend for wealth and income would fund a modest initial basic income.
OXFORD – The past three weeks have given the world a stunning role reversal in global governance.
This represents not only an astonishing reversal of US policy toward Europe – which has, for seven decades, unswervingly supported European integration – but also a dramatic shift in the UK’s external stance.
With the SNB’s assets amounting to nearly 90% of Switzerland’s GDP, the reversal raises serious questions about both the limits and repercussions of open-ended QE.
The Polish economist Michal Kalecki, a co-inventor of Keynesian economics (and a distant relative of mine), predicted this politically motivated ideological reversal with uncanny accuracy back in 1943:“The assumption that a government will maintain full employment in a capitalist economy if it knows how to do it is fallacious.
Such a reversal would reduce hunger, poverty, and malnutrition; help protect our planet’s natural resources; and slow the emission of greenhouse gases from agriculture.
Given how long it took the US economy, for example, to recover fully from the Great Depression – until World War II, when the government took over much of the demand side of the economy – it seems that a reversal in these trends will not arrive anytime soon.
But a large reversal in the fortunes of rich and poor countries seems neither economically likely, nor politically feasible.
The reversal of bank lending is staggering.
In the space of a single primary-school generation, Syria has suffered what may be the greatest education reversal in history.
This represents a disappointing reversal.
This trend exposes candidate countries' real economies to precisely the risk of a capital flow reversal and currency crisis that early Euro adoption was meant to eliminate.
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