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If secular stagnation persists, these countries will have to undertake painful structural reforms, figure out how to restructure their promises (debts, social-security commitments, and pledges to keep taxes low), and distribute the resulting burden.
Furthermore, in the Greater Middle East, the fall of one secular dictatorship after another, coupled with the loosening of external control, has incited new – and rekindled old – suspicions, religious disagreements, and mistrust of outsiders in general and the West in particular.
Given that brains are at their most malleable during childhood, beginning mental training in school would help to create a solid foundation for the kind of secular ethics that would contribute to the development of a more compassionate society.
Many foreign commentators described the presidential and parliamentary elections as a contest between Turkey’s secular past and a putative Islamist future.
Although there is no doubt that the military, as the bastion of the secular establishment, does not like these results, a coup is virtually out of the question.
Thus, Turkey will continue its unprecedented amalgam of Islam, capitalism, and secular liberal democracy.
Puerto Ricans’ freedom to move to the mainland was not enough to keep unemployment from becoming a secular problem: around 11% before the 2008 financial crisis, a 17% peak in 2010, and above 12% recently.
So the debate is between the doves and the secular leaders of the hawks’ camp.
A recent CBO analysis attributes about one-half of the decline in the LFPR from the end of 2007 to the end of 2013 to these cyclical factors, with the remainder explained by secular demographic trends.
But longer-term secular factors also play a role.
The argument for this option is that long-term secular factors are important drivers of capital inflows, as advanced-economy investors discover that they are underweight in emerging-market assets and reduce their portfolios’ “home bias.”
The first, the Secular Stagnation Hypothesis, has been proposed by Larry Summers.
The Secular Stagnation Hypothesis is worrying, because it gives few reasons to believe that things will improve by themselves.
The Secular Stagnation Hypothesis accounts well for the mistakes made in the eurozone in the aftermath of the global recession, when sovereigns attempted to deleverage while companies and households were unwilling to spend, and the ECB was keeping monetary policy relatively tight.
In Egypt, the military’s takeover of the political transition after the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak is unacceptable to Muslim and secular forces alike.
The armed forces, however, claim a constitutional mandate to protect the Republic’s secular traditions.
Many non-government organizations, both secular and religious, also opposed the resolution.
For this reason, they refused to reach out to their secular opponents to offer them a piece of the political pie.
Of course, a stable, orderly, and secular Afghanistan serves China’s interests as much as it benefits the rest of the world.
Finally, Rachid al-Ghannouchi, who leads the largest Islamic-inspired political party, Al Nahda, went out of his way to tell me that he has signed an agreement with some secular parties that he will not try to change Tunisia’s women-friendly family code, the most liberal in the Arab world.
They also increasingly believe that the most democratically effective policy toward Al Nahda for secular parties is accommodation, not exclusion.
But I see that as an improbable outcome, given the growing diversification of Muslim identities in the new context of political freedoms, secular parties’ efforts to keep the Muslim Brotherhood within electoral politics, and the profiles of the three leading presidential candidates, none of whom want the Egyptian Revolution to be captured.
While taking care not to anger northern voters by openly distancing himself from Shari'ah, Buhari pledges to uphold the nation's secular constitution.
In Tunisia, the middle class has come under intense pressure, constitutionally guaranteed gender equality is under threat, and conservative and Salafist forces are trying, often violently, to erode and dismantle the Republic’s secular foundations.
In a forthcoming book, they argue that the collapse of advanced-country growth is not merely a result of the financial crisis; at its root, they argue, these countries’ weakness reflects secular stagnation in technology and innovation.
These are very interesting ideas, but the evidence still seems overwhelming that the drag on the global economy mainly reflects the aftermath of a deep systemic financial crisis, not a long-term secular innovation crisis.
Attributing the ongoing slowdown to the financial crisis does not imply the absence of long-term secular effects, some of which are rooted in the crisis itself.
And, regardless of technological trends, other secular trends, such as aging populations in most advanced countries, are taking a toll on growth prospects as well.
We live in a secular world, where free speech can easily turn into insensitive and irresponsible mockery, while others see religion as their supreme goal, if not their last hope.
Secular Stagnation for FreeCAMBRIDGE – Something is definitely rotten in the state of capitalism.
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