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While it may enhance incentives to invest in research, it may also enhance incentives for secrecy – impeding the flow of knowledge that is essential to learning while encouraging firms to maximize what they draw from the pool of collective knowledge and to minimize what they contribute.
Shinzo Abe, Japan's right-wing nationalist prime minister, does not need much encouragement to tighten up secrecy laws, give more powers to the police, or make it easier to use military force.
Another reason for our greater fear of terrorism is that whereas ordinary criminals prefer secrecy, terrorists crave publicity.
When, after the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the advent of the so-called New Diplomacy, whereby secrecy and the balance of power would be replaced by open covenants and collective security, many people regarded such things as the dreams of an idealist-preacher.
Of course, the havens should also ensure transparency and crack down on tax evasion and corporate secrecy.
But excessive secrecy leads to scarce resources being diverted into wild-goose chases.
But even economic and financial decisions may require secrecy and speed.
WikiLeaky PowerPARIS – Beyond the headlines, the embarrassment of governments, and the blow dealt to the secrecy of diplomatic correspondence, WikiLeaks’ exposure of US diplomatic cables offers a raw illustration of how deeply the essence of power has been altered in our information age.
George W. Bush has shown the dangers of excessive secrecy and confining decision-making to a narrow circle of sycophants.
The NTC has suffered regular internal disputes, and its membership and functioning are shrouded in secrecy.
But America has also grown up in another way, learning to choose transparency over secrecy, and to rely on the power of its citizens.
The use of the CIA as a secret army of destabilization has a long, tragic history of failure, all hidden from public view under the agency’s cloak of secrecy.
But they did so, in part, by penetrating the murky worlds of financial secrecy created and protected by the US Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service, and the US Congress (ever-protective of Caribbean tax havens).
The deep secrecy of its political system meant that the flow of information was slow and cumbersome.
Another reason is his preoccupation with secrecy.
Obviously, such secrecy hurts Russia.
A month later, in equal secrecy, Hitler sold Lithuania to Stalin.
The information vacuum was reminiscent of the secrecy surrounding the deaths of Stalin and Mao, and the practice in the Ottoman empire of keeping the sultan’s death a secret for weeks until the succession was settled.
This secrecy lies at the heart of financial activity.
Finally, what especially grates on the agreements’ critics is the secrecy of the negotiations.
The time for secrecy is past, if it ever existed.
Two trends deserve attention and mitigation (but not regulation or secrecy!).
Drone operations are carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization whose activities are shrouded in secrecy.
Of course, politicians prefer to work in secrecy, without oversight.
Lastly, the culture of secrecy and non-accountability that permeates soccer’s major governing bodies such as FIFA, UEFA and the various country federations needs to be changed.
The actual depth of China’s economic woes is unclear, given that both decision-making and key statistics remain shrouded in secrecy.
Beyond forcing millions of gay men and women to live in fear and secrecy, Section 377 has undermined HIV-prevention efforts and contributed to depression and suicides.
In many societies, a woman’s period is a topic shrouded in euphemism and secrecy, owing to communal beliefs that can leave girls and women feeling embarrassed, isolated and insecure.
Obedience makes the inaccessibility of power and the elite’s cult of secrecy possible.
This secrecy and inaccessibility distort French democracy, as manifested in the long struggle to expose the corruption of the Gaullist mayor of Paris, Jean Tiberi, as well as that of President Mitterrand’s friend and foreign minister, Roland Dumas.
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