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One is the market-creating and market-growing role illustrated by the GSM standard.
When the standard is set by regulation in a large market like the EU, the United States, or China, economies of scale kick in quickly.
In the heyday of the gold standard, Frieden argues, mainstream political actors had to downplay social reform and national identity because they gave priority to international economic ties.
Sarkozy correctly assumed that managers of publicly-traded firms, much like politicians, are public figures who should be held to a minimum ethical standard of behavior.
But these arguments merely underscore a double standard.
As Barry Eichengreen and Jeffrey Sachs demonstrated in 1984, while abandoning the gold standard had an immediate negative impact, it quickly spurred recovery, with the first countries to devalue their currencies escaping depression earlier than others.
In the 1930’s, after the gold standard broke down, world leaders could not agree on coordinated reflation of the global economy.
First, the standard narrative about how trade has benefited developing economies omits a crucial feature of their experience.
The IMF's economic framework still does not provide for countercyclical fiscal policies, because the IMF remains ambivalent about the standard Keynesian prescription of stimulating an economy in a downturn.
The revulsion provoked by the murder of innocents is deeply felt by all, and it is reprehensible by any standard, religious or not.
Italy provides a good example of this: before the EMU, the country was plagued by high inflation, high interest rates and a very high cost of government debt which threatened the stability of public finances and the standard of living in Italy.
My standard answer is that it changes the balance of power between individuals and institutions.
Indeed, any standard decision rule used by central banks by now dictates that a hike is long overdue.
This is because, by almost any standard, EEA membership is clearly inferior to full EU membership.
Obama did, however, promise a change of policy, indicating that before any strike was undertaken, he would require “near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured – the highest standard we can set.”
The “near-certainty” standard appears not to have been met.
The core of the book is a series of profiles of people who live according to a highly demanding moral standard.
One standard reply is, “The EU’s member states” – all 28 of them.
Germany’s success in retaining its industrial base contradicts rich countries’ standard practice of outsourcing manufacturing to locations with lower labor costs.
But a high standard of fidelity to the truth is needed in the media; otherwise, debates become too distorted for citizens to evaluate correctly their meaning.
No deal would probably mean reverting to standard World Trade Organization rules.
Judged by this standard, the eurozone, comprising 19 established democracies, lags behind the largest non-democratic economy in the world.
Standard economic theory tells us that excessive profits are the direct result of concentrated ownership.
And boosting net exports will require a weaker dollar to make US products more attractive to foreign buyers and foreign goods more expensive to US buyers, implying a loss in Americans’ standard of living.
Some Chinese even think that world standard time should no longer be measured at Greenwich, England, but in Beijing.
Dubai’s brand is further strengthened by its political stability, safety, tolerance, cultural diversity, and high standard of living, which are a draw for skilled expatriates from around the world.
Ever since 1825, central banks’ standard response in such situations – except during the Great Depression of the 1930’s – has been the same: raise and support the prices of risky financial assets, and prevent financial markets from sending a signal to the real economy to shut down risky enterprises and eschew risky investments.
A standard objection to UBI as a way to replace earnings from vanishing jobs is that it is unaffordable.
He concluded that, “The value of a rising standard of living lies not just in the concrete improvements it brings to how individuals live but in how it shapes the social, political, and ultimately the moral character of a people.”
By this standard, we are doing badly.
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