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Indeed, the Muslim Brotherhood government and the secular opposition both complained about America’s relationship with the other.
Its strength is belief itself – belief in a moral order that defies secular, or, indeed, religious dictators.
Despite the horrific violence of Islamist fanatics, it should not be forgotten that the mosque can also be a legitimate basis for resistance against the mostly secular dictatorships in the Middle East today.
Nevertheless, the danger of all dogmas, religious or secular, is that they lead to different forms of oppression.
The Madonna-like status of Cory Aquino in the Philippines was inspiring in the heady days of People Power, but did little to bolster the institutions of a secular democracy.
In Poland, once the battle against Communism was won, the Solidarity movement was soon sundered by conflicts between secular democrats and believers who looked to the Church for guidance.
Faith has an especially important role to play in politics in circumstances where secular liberals are rendered impotent, as in the case of Nazi occupation, Communist rule, or military dictatorship.
Many believe that Congress – with its commitment to secular values, economic growth, and helping the poor – now has a mandate to transform India into a great power.
The Road to Full InvestmentLONDON – A specter is haunting the treasuries and central banks of the West – the specter of secular stagnation.
The generalized version of this proposition is that secular stagnation – the persistent underuse of potential resources – is the fate of all economies that rely on private investment to fill the gap between income and consumption.
But beyond this, one should view secular stagnation as an opportunity rather than a threat.
The environmental movement is a new secular Christian creed, for which saving Spaceship Earth has replaced saving souls.
Disintegration in the Arab Middle East reflects the region’s failure to find a path between the bankrupt, secular nationalism that has dominated its state system since independence and a radical brand of Islam at war with modernity.
Egypt’s vibrant political life, press, and liberal culture were then supported by an ideology of secular nationalism and improved religious harmony.
China’s Slowing New NormalMILAN – The world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, seem to be enduring secular slowdowns.
China’s leaders must do what it takes to ensure that such a slowdown is not viewed as secular trend – a perception that could undermine the consumption and investment that the economy so badly needs.
This is a key reason why political differences quickly turn into clashes of views on the country’s identity – religious versus secular, Islam versus Egyptianness, and military rule versus its emerging successor.
But the return of gridlock in Congress could short-circuit this trend and put a damper on expectations, while growth-constraining secular trends like demographics are not just going to disappear.
This combination of high debt and rising inequality may be the source of the secular stagnation that is making structural reforms more politically difficult to implement.
After spending the decade since the financial crisis obsessing about secular stagnation and falling prices, investors and Federal Reserve officials will require many months or even years of consistent and incontrovertible evidence of inflation and higher growth to be convinced that deflationary conditions have genuinely reversed.
The historical failure named Iraq war, the demise of secular Arab nationalism and the soaring oil and gas prices have wrought profound changes in the region.
Its driving ideological force was a European-inspired secular nationalism, which strove for political and social modernization through top-down government action.
Secular Stagnation RevisitedWARWICK – The public spat between Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is remarkable for the personal animosity that it reveals between two economists who essentially agree about the economics.
Summers reinvigorated the work of Alvin Hansen, who introduced the concept of secular stagnation in the 1930s.
And in his written work on this topic, he has seamlessly shifted between a definition of secular stagnation that involves permanently lower growth rates as a result of low investment and permanently lower employment as a result of deficient aggregate demand.
And I have provided an internally coherent theory whereby secular stagnation arises naturally as a consequence of low expectations on the part of households and firms about the future value of their assets.
The current manifestation of that approach is so-called New Keynesian Economics, which Summers himself has rightly rejected because it is inconsistent with secular stagnation.
But it is not enough to assert that secular stagnation is possible.
It is time to confront alternative theories of secular stagnation with empirical evidence, as I have done.
The secular, ethical mental-training exercises used in the ReSource project could be applied in businesses, political institutions, schools (for both teachers and students), and health-care settings – in short, in all areas where people experience high levels of stress and related phenomena.
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