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Third, fusion also emits neutrons that will produce helium gas bubbles inside the wall material, which tends to explode.
Germany tends to call the shots, of course, but the discordant national politics of many member states has contributed to one debacle after the next.
A recent paper by MIT Professors Nittai Bergman and Derk Jenter suggests that management tends to award employee options when employees are excessively optimistic about the outlook for company stock – thereby in effect opportunistically substituting overpriced options for full pay.
The current winner-takes-all electoral system tends to favor regional opposition parties that are identity-driven and not prone to political compromise.
The current system tends to reinforce gender roles, encouraging children to follow culturally framed paths, instead of nurturing their individual interests and potential.
For starters, national statistical offices often lack the institutional autonomy needed to protect the integrity of data, production of which thus tends to be influenced by political forces and special interest groups.
As the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey has noted, while the bourgeoisie provides the clerisy with a living, in times of crisis, the clerisy tends to promote anti-bourgeois fantasies, from nationalism to communism.
Autocratic rule in Islamic countries tends to strengthen jihadist forces.
As a result, criticism of globalization today tends to focus less on trade issues.
One reason, of course, is that in a crisis, private debt tends to become public debt.
And it should not be a defensive policy of the sort that tends to concentrate on poor-quality land.
This tends to undermine German growth and benefit southern European countries, which export more consumer goods.
Even if America were to reverse its current policies and reduce its domestic agricultural subsidies--just one reason that Latin Americans view the FTAA as rank hypocrisy--a focus on export-oriented agriculture in Ecuador tends to favor large landowners over small farmers, shifting income from the poor to the rich.
Though the pain tends to capture the most attention, the benefit is just as important – if not more so.
When oil demand is fairly strong, as it is now and tends to be in early summer, the price will be set by the marginal production costs in US shale basins and Canadian tar sands.
Wars provide the opportunity for humiliation in very stark ways, because defeat on the battlefield tends to bring not just ridicule and derision, but also clear losses, particularly of territory.
Today, it is the Arab world that tends to use Turkey the way that Europe did in the past.
The result of low interest rates, quantitative easing, and forward guidance, Taylor argues, is a “decline in credit availability [that] reduces aggregate demand, which tends to increase unemployment, a classic unintended consequence.”
The right has greater confidence in markets to allocate resources and provide appropriate incentives; favors private consumption over public goods; is minimally concerned with economic inequality; and tends to be more nationalistic and less optimistic about international cooperation.
To be sure, the work tends to be low in productivity and scale, and women are often pushed into such jobs by poverty.
Though nationalist sentiment directed against external foes tends to divert attention temporarily from internal turmoil, the country’s serious domestic problems need to be addressed.
But victims often do not understand that this actually tends to contain potentially embarrassing scandals, by preventing real – that is, accountable – law enforcement from getting involved.
Rapid population growth also tends to accelerate the depletion of environmental resources both locally and globally, and can permanently undermine the prospects for their recovery.
Furthermore, US-style QE, in particular, tends to have adverse distributional implications, because it channels more money toward the wealthy, who have a lower propensity to spend, without providing much to the poorer people who would use it to consume more.
Emotionally, too, “Sarkozy the American, Sarkozy the doer,” who wants to be judged by his actions, tends to see himself as a Gallic incarnation of the American dream.
In diplomacy, Khamenei tends to operate in a clever but recognizable fashion.
In practice, however, Western diplomacy tends to ignore Khamenei, who sabotages any effort to get around him as the final arbiter of Iranian policy.
Public spending tends to rise with inflation more than government revenues do, because revenues depend on the tax on exports, which is calculated at the pegged official exchange rate.
The potency of such efforts tends to be shaped by cultural norms, the institutional bargaining power of labor, the level of trust between labor and business, and the influence of individual and corporate wealth on politics.
In economic development, as in life, there’s no free lunch: Without high rates of investment in know-how, skills, machinery, and sustainable infrastructure, productivity tends to decline (mainly through depreciation), dragging down living standards.
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