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Politicization is the necessary antidote to technocrats’
tendency
to be captured by banks.
The point is that, despite the excesses of 1999-2000, the economic difficulties of the last two years, and the
tendency
to think of the technology boom of the 1990's as mere hype, the US underwent deep structural changes in its economy during that decade.
Some would attribute Americans’
tendency
to spend – while Asians, for example, tend to save – to cultural factors.
So their natural
tendency
in a test apparatus is to find areas that are poorly illuminated or close to walls.
For example, the
tendency
of Arab countries’ media to discuss issues concerning other countries more freely than those affecting their own has long impeded citizens’ ability to keep abreast of domestic affairs.
Yet, contrary to this theory, there has been no overall
tendency
for the poorest countries to catch up , or converge, with the richer ones in recent decades.
But the lessons of history have a peculiar
tendency
to adapt to the perspective of those citing them.
One of the great failings in the EU-India partnership has been Europe’s
tendency
to preach to India on matters, such as human rights, that Indians believe they can handle on their own.
The state established a wide network of educational institutions that support this moderate
tendency.
Obama, for his part, was reacting to his own predecessor, George W. Bush, whose
tendency
toward dangerous overreach was exemplified in his Global War on Terror.
And that
tendency
did not start with Bush: the list goes on, taking us back a good century.
Over time, there will be a
tendency
for these divergences to be compressed, but that won't be a result of the Euro.
Likewise, the choice between privately consumed and publicly consumed “goods” is often blurred, as politicians tend to reinforce citizens’ understandable
tendency
to demand public goods while rejecting the taxes needed to pay for them.
The main danger for Japan today is a
tendency
to turn inward, rather than becoming a global civilian power that realizes its great potential to produce global public goods.
His disquisition on the dangers posed by same-sex marriage followed a passage deploring the modern
tendency
to avoid lifelong commitments in human relationships, as if that were not precisely what gay marriage is about.
Such events reinforce the
tendency
of modern political regimes, dictatorships as well as democracies, to measure themselves in monumental building projects – giant new stadiums, gargantuan shopping malls, huge conference halls – which are sometimes needed, but often are not.
Moreover, most national policymakers have a
tendency
to blame “Brussels” for all of their difficult choices, thus creating the impression at home that the economy would improve if economic affairs could be managed without EU interference.
These rants display a second major feature of the Chinese cult of guochi : the
tendency
to blame a weak, feckless Chinese government for not standing up to predatory foreigners.
India’s Fiscal FolliesNEW DEHLI -- India’s new budget for 2008-2009 says less about the country’s current financial health than it does about the irresistible
tendency
of Indian governments to use the national budget as a pre-election cudgel.
The results are striking: in large cities, people not only walk faster (a
tendency
recorded since the 1960s), but they also make – and change – friends faster.
But another
tendency
is also consistent across cities of all sizes: people tend to build “villages” around themselves.
This disruptive
tendency
reinforces the need for collaboration, underpinned by strong incentives for Iran to maintain a constructive, moderate foreign policy.
Nowhere is this clearer than in discussions of the United States’ trade deficit and global financial imbalances, given economists’
tendency
to reduce most economic problems to questions of savings.
Most glaring is QE supporters’
tendency
to ascribe any decline in interest rates before the policy was announced to market participants’ expectations that QE would be coming.
As a result, globalization’s
tendency
to produce macroeconomic imbalances and financial fragility, its adverse impact on equality and social peace in many countries, and its weak political legitimacy will continue to generate tension and periodic crises.
There is, however, a
tendency
among economists and policymakers to overemphasize such market-related measures of performance, while overlooking the reason why that performance matters: human wellbeing.
Both Germany’s habit of free riding and France’s
tendency
toward trigger-happy postcolonial forays will have to be debated.
Since 1980, global savings have fluctuated between 22% and 24% of world GDP, with little
tendency
to trend up or down.
That
tendency
will be even greater if the public senses that the consequences (distorted asset prices, high government debt, etc.) eventually must be reversed.
Outside of developed democracies, persistent lapses in inclusiveness are nearly always devastating for long-term growth and development, and often lead to violence and civil strife – a
tendency
that the Growth Report of the Commission on Growth and Development highlighted several years ago.
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