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As technological innovation causes per capita income to rise, people will need to work less to satisfy their needs.
True, Keynes was well aware that relative needs – “keeping up with the Joneses” – will never be satiated, but he thought that these needs would become of second-order importance, so remote from the search for the good life that seeking to satisfy them would be recognized as a form of neurosis.
As soon as we abandon the fiction that economic agents are Robinson Crusoes, absolute needs turn out to be indistinguishable from relative needs, because the goods that satisfy our needs change.
The fact is that leaders across the Muslim and Arab world are not going to allow Trump to hand Jerusalem to Israel unilaterally, simply to satisfy his small base of US Christian Zionist evangelicals (he received the support of less than a quarter of American Jews).
Maximizing shareholder value over a particular time period may satisfy the interests of some shareholders but violate the interests of others.
The fact that a VER could also satisfy US demand also means that the conventional wisdom underlying trade negotiations does not apply in this case.
More recently, NYU social psychologist John Jost has argued that “ideologies and other belief systems grow out of an attempt to satisfy the epistemic, existential, and relational needs of our species.”
Judges should make sure that rules are followed, but if a firm is willing to satisfy administrative requirements, pay the layoff tax, and make severance payments, they should not be able to second guess the firm's decision.
California’s government rarely manages to satisfy the balanced-budget requirement in the state constitution.
The provision, adopted to satisfy countries worried about their own potential breakaway regions (Chechnya in Russia, and Tibet in China), violates the principle, engraved in common sense if not in international law, that genocide nullifies sovereignty – that a state cannot seek to extinguish a people and yet insist on governing them.
Traditional parties and processes are finding it harder and harder to satisfy the demand for instant gratification.
It is never possible to satisfy the demands of all protesters, and regimes should not try.
They establish “reservations wages” or minimum wage demands against the private economy that employers are increasingly unwilling or unable to satisfy.
Nor can they be kept on bare concrete without straw or some other material that allows them to satisfy their natural instinct to root.
Since many of these services require face-to-face interaction with customers, US multinationals had to expand their foreign employment to satisfy demand in these markets.
But, with Japan’s political system mired in a protracted transition under a dysfunctional two-party regime, recent governments have been unstable and weak, unable to satisfy either side’s demands.
The first change would enable Annex I countries to satisfy a greater share of their increasing climate responsibilities using credits from land-use projects implemented in non-Annex I countries.
Indeed, any reasonable reading of the resolution – especially in the context of the conflict-ridden Balkans over the past two decades – would acknowledge that independence would satisfy the resolution’s intent and the purpose of sustaining UN supervision of the province for the past eight years.
Even so, Argentina went bankrupt, because wealthy Argentines had spirited their assets out of the country, and thus out of the reach of the government, while poor Argentines refused to pay the taxes needed to satisfy foreign creditors’ claims.
Time is running out, however, for them to satisfy their supporters and silence their critics by achieving it.
If the new crown prince is worried about his domestic political standing, he will be reluctant to stand shoulder to shoulder with an American president seen as too close to an Israel that is unwilling to satisfy even minimal Palestinian requirements for statehood.
Even if the eurozone might not satisfy the necessary economic preconditions at the outset, economic variables would converge later on.
At the other end of this process, producers who satisfy old desires continue economizing, because they compete for employees and consumers with producers who satisfy new desires.
Resources released by these imports fostered the growth of industries that satisfy new needs.
Simply put, the long-term prosperity of developed economies depends on their capacity to create and satisfy new consumer desires.
Such an outcome might satisfy some parts of Lebanese society, particularly Hezbollah.
The Belgian economist Robert Triffin first identified this problem – dubbed the “Triffin dilemma” – in the 1960s, emphasizing the fundamental conflict between national objectives, such as limiting the size of the external deficit, and international imperatives, such as creating enough liquidity to satisfy demand for reserve assets.
It helps people find work that fulfills their potential, and it helps employers find people who can use their infrastructure (whether machines or office equipment or even just a methodology for service delivery) to satisfy the needs of businesses and consumers around the world.
Today, the guerrillas are significantly weaker, allowing Santos’s government to offer a minimalist agreement that can satisfy both the Colombian establishment, which backs the process but without much conviction, and a fatigued and mercurial public that wants peace but remains unwilling to accept too many concessions to the FARC.
This is unlikely to satisfy the developing countries.
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