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The problem is analogous to that which arose at the beginning of the
twentieth
century, when rapid productivity growth in agriculture forced labor to move from rural areas to urban manufacturing centers.
For much of the
twentieth
century, 40% of humanity suffered famines, gulags, censorship, and other forms of repression at the hands of self-proclaimed Marxists.
In his speech, Juncker seemed to be alluding to the standard counterargument: that communist atrocities throughout the
twentieth
century were due to some sort of distortion of Marx’s thought, for which the man himself can scarcely be held responsible.
And, if more evidence were needed, the countries that embraced capitalism in the
twentieth
century went on to become democratic, open, and prosperous societies.
Global trends, as measured by Freedom House and other nongovernmental authorities, include a surge in despotic regimes not seen since the first half of the
twentieth
century.
On the contrary, in the early part of the
twentieth
century, Germany was one of the world's richest countries, with enviably high education levels and scientific prowess.
In the early
twentieth
century, the imperial and spiritual mission became one, as Russia became the bastion of world communism.
After the first half of the
twentieth
century – the bloodiest period of human history – the continent’s leaders returned from the battlefield to lay the foundations of lasting European peace.
After all, Putin, a former KGB agent in East Germany, has lamented the Soviet Union’s dissolution as “the greatest geopolitical disaster of the
twentieth
century.”
In the second half of the
twentieth
century, Thai elections seemed to alternate with military coups.
But such a link was seen in the early part of the
twentieth
century: capitalism, some argued, tends to generate chronic weakness in effective demand due to growing concentration of income, leading to a “savings glut,” because the very rich save a lot.
So, as the world itself becomes more complex, AI will become the defining technology of the twenty-first century, just as the microprocessor was in the
twentieth
century.
In the middle of the
twentieth
century, Josef Stalin scornfully asked how many divisions the Pope had, but four decades later, the Papacy was still intact while Stalin’s empire had collapsed.
The Chinese MirrorTOKYO – The closing decade of the
twentieth
century offered a crystal ball for anyone peering into the future of the Asia-Pacific region.
Indeed, household-sector debt is still in excess of 110% of disposable personal income and the personal saving rate remains below 3%, averages that compare unfavorably with the 75% and 7.9% norms that prevailed, respectively, in the final three decades of the
twentieth
century.
The problem, I think, is that Barro tries to use the years of “total” war in the
twentieth
century – World War I, World War II, and the Korean War – to “realistically evaluate the stimulus,” because “the defense-spending multiplier can be precisely estimated....”But this is like looking for one’s lost keys under the lamppost because the light is better there.
Specifically, students must be exposed to – and learn to appreciate – the modern values associated with individualism, which emerged toward the end of the Renaissance and continued to gain traction through the early
twentieth
century.
Biomedicine in ReverseLA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA – Pundits have long predicted that biology would dominate the twenty-first century, just as physics dominated the
twentieth
century.
America’s relations with other major powers – China, India, Japan, Russia, Europe, and Brazil – are at least as cooperative as they are competitive; conflict between such major powers, the dominant characteristic of the international order in the
twentieth
century, is unlikely.
They would rather confront Russia as they did in the
twentieth
century – from under America’s protective wing.
The most obvious explanation for the German peculiarity is an obsession with the lessons of German history, particularly the two episodes of runaway inflation in the
twentieth
century, in which holders of monetary assets were expropriated.
If, in the early
twentieth
century, only 50% of the archipelago’s infrastructure could withstand a hurricane, then, say, half the population would evacuate when a hurricane hit.
The European Union is even more instructive, because centuries of war, culminating in the two World Wars of the
twentieth
century, inspired, rather than deterred, European economic, political and security integration.
In the United States, the price of agricultural land grew only 0.9% a year in real (inflation-adjusted) terms over the entire
twentieth
century.
By 2000, it was 85%, saving about three million lives annually – more, each year, than world peace would have saved in the
twentieth
century.
In economic terms, the cost of poor health at the outset of the
twentieth
century was an astounding 32% of global GDP.
While the optimists are not entirely right (loss of biodiversity in the
twentieth
century probably cost about 1% of GDP per year, with some places losing much more), the overall picture is clear.
Three century-long movements constitute the essence of the book: a rise in inequality in the nineteenth century, a fall in inequality in the
twentieth
century, and a predicted return to historically high inequality in the twenty-first century.
More efficient versions of this prime mover dominated the modernization of the Western world until the first decade of the
twentieth
century.
The gas turbine was conceived at the beginning of the
twentieth
century, but its first working prototypes (both stationary and for flight) came only during the 1930’s, and began to be rapidly diffused in the 1950’s.
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