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Trends and Trendiness at DavosThe annual World Economic Forum is rightly perceived as a global “barometer.”
With Nobel prize-winning economists on both sides of the current debate about how to solve the unemployment problem, the public is rightly confused.
As Summers rightly responded:“Some have suggested that a belief in secular stagnation implies the desirability of bubbles to support demand.
In the 1970s, when inflation in the advanced economies rose sharply, central banks rightly resisted it.
They rightly recall the long and intimate relationship between Britain and the European continent.
Many citizens believe, rightly, that their mass media are failing to investigate and document abuses.
Likewise, in an age when corporate lobbyists have a free hand in shaping – if not drafting – public policies, many people believe, again rightly, that their elected officials no longer represent them.
By the same token, soaring energy prices shifted purchasing power from the United States and Europe to oil exporters, who, recognizing the volatility of energy prices, rightly saved much of this income.
The great twentieth-century philosopher Karl Popper, one of Marx’s strongest critics, rightly called him a “false prophet.”
They have rightly concluded that technological progress, nurtured by appropriate policy support, can deliver low-carbon economies alongside rising prosperity.
By contrast, genetic patenting, which affects both sexes, has (rightly) generated a huge scholarly literature and a very vigorous popular debate.
Putin’s critics rightly see his Syrian adventure as yet another appeal to Russian nostalgia for the Soviet past: the USSR was mighty – and Putin claims that Russia can and does have the same power.
Merkel’s Panglossian campaign was much more in tune with the sentiment of the German electorate than the opposing parties’ tristesse about working-class distress, which was rightly seen as a ploy for raising taxes.
The US is rightly worried that a victory by Jaish al-Fatah and others might empower anti-Western elements in Syria.
Most of that is owed to the International Monetary Fund, which is rightly insisting on a more transparent privatization process, administrative reform, deregulation, anti-corruption and other measures before allowing the country to borrow new cash or roll over its current debt.
The Democrats rightly resisted; the number of jobs that would have been created was miniscule.
When Brazil emerged as the lowest-performing education system in the first PISA assessment, released in 2000, many people rightly questioned the fairness of comparing an emerging economy to advanced countries like Finland and Japan.
But that rule is rightly recognized as being potentially dysfunctional.
Leaders, technologists, futurists, and employees in every industry rightly wonder how AI will affect our workplaces, societies, and lives.
And there is the disconcerting prospect that new civil nuclear-energy players will insist on building uranium-enrichment or plutonium-reprocessing plants of their own, rightly described as “bomb starter kits.”
China is rightly proud to be able to project itself into the twenty-second century.
In the aftermath of North Korea’s hereditary succession, strategic thinkers rightly emphasize China’s key role in shaping the peninsula’s future.
UN member states rightly adopt bold measures such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement, yet lack the financial means to implement them.
Waste-treatment facilities are not typically tourist attractions, but Ankara’s novel integrated urban waste-management system has rightly attracted global attention.
The project was perceived – rightly so – as amounting to a surrender of sovereignty, because it introduced a rigid principle of non-discrimination between foreign and local companies that would eliminate the host country’s room for maneuver without offering anything in return.
Pressure from parents seeking to prevent their children and grandchildren from suffering will undoubtedly overwhelm concerns about the possibility that others will use the same technology to attempt to build superkids – and rightly so.
Obama rightly recognizes that it is an important tool of foreign policy, to be employed when it promises results that are more favorable than the alternatives.
And yet he controversially but rightly held out a hand of friendship to the breakaway region of Somaliland, before it became fashionable, and went as far as he could short of formal re-recognition of that ray of democratic hope in the Horn of Africa.
Rather than offering facile answers such as “just let markets work” or “just get governance right,” it rightly emphasizes that each country must devise its own mix of remedies.
If an outsider had tried similar tactics in Chechnya, the Russians would rightly have howled with rage.
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