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But the tendency to apply old labels remains strong, so that everyday we hear gross simplifications like the current one that holds that Latin America is now undergoing a powerful leftist wave.
The parties’ rivalry is healthy, though there is a built-in tendency to seek solutions that command a broad social consensus.
Such a tendency contributed significantly to the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98.
With about 80% of Chinese household savings deposited in banks, this implicit tax on savings has had a major economic impact, reinforcing Chinese households’ tendency to save and thus undermining consumption growth and exacerbating global imbalances.
India has never seemed likely to succumb to a similar tendency, but the irresponsible custodians of Indian democracy should not tempt fate.
Communists always had a tendency to dismiss the differences between candidates in liberal democracies (let alone “managed” ones).
The hope that economic growth promotes peace and tolerance is based on people’s tendency to compare themselves not just to others in the present, but also to what they remember of people – including themselves – in the past.
We have a tendency to underestimate both the probabilities and consequences of what in the investment world are called “left-tailed events.”
This tendency at times of economic downturn suggests that SWFs are not the long-term, stable shareholders of foreign firms that they (and some commentators) claim themselves to be.
This tendency is to be welcomed, not shunned.
This dangerous idea – proposed in France by Jacques Rueff in 1958, adopted throughout Europe over the following two decades, and extended to the European Central Bank – was intended to limit the tendency of capitalist economies to aggravate inflation as soon as they hit full employment.
For them, manufactured discontent in Ukraine’s Russian-speaking regions – which have embraced a centrifugal tendency greater than in any other European democracy – impels them toward the system of managed democracy found in Russia in order to protect their continued misrule.
Yet Japan, like the US and Europe, continues to display a quixotic tendency to tilt at deflation windmills, with rock-bottom interest rates and purchases of massive amounts of government debt.
This sensible objective was sabotaged by the tendency to overlook what was actually happening in some countries.
This tendency leaves countries poorly positioned to inject stimulus when bad times come again.
However, the international outcry obscured an unintended but perhaps more troubling feature of China’s exchange-rate policy: the tendency for sporadic renminbi appreciation (even small movements) to trigger speculative inflows of “hot” money.
The tendency of these capital owners to save a large proportion of their income – and, in many cases, not to have a large number of children – would augment wealth concentration further.
One that has been largely neglected in the debate about Piketty’s book is the tendency of the superrich to marry one another – an increasingly common phenomenon as more women join the group of high earners.
The closest thing, in some ways, to the China Model is nineteenth-century Germany, with its industrial strength, its cultivated but politically neutered middle class, and its tendency toward aggressive nationalism.
A singular weakness of Modi’s government has been its tendency, when it comes to BJP extremists, to run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds.
In fact, as psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky have shown, there is a systematic human tendency to downgrade the perceived probability of low-probability events, so that people go about their lives as if the probability of these events’ occurrence is zero.
The news media’s tendency to fixate on new records serves their short-term interest in creating the impression that something really important has happened that justifies readers’ or viewers’ attention.
But the alternative is not just the hardening of divisions and estrangement of communities; it is widespread dehumanization, a tendency that current technologies seem to encourage.
Where this tendency is strongest, productivity levels are weakest.
America’s leadership in world affairs began to weaken with the unilateralism of Bush, and today’s economic problems are reinforcing this tendency.
This tendency is reinforced by the rise of cable television, which attracts viewers by means of contentious “infotainment” programs, and Internet bloggers, who engage in fierce polemics with no editorial filter.
Indeed, so far, Iran has kept its promises, though its leaders do have a tendency to push the limits, such as when it conducted a test of medium-range ballistic missiles in January.
But there is also a higher risk of disaster, owing to a seemingly inborn human tendency to extrapolate past returns.
This deflationary tendency will create serious economic problems, which do not necessarily result from deflation as such, but may stem from a natural resistance to deflation.
The problem is that Obama has a strong tendency to overestimate America’s ability to influence weaker actors.
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