Virtue
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The problem is that governments in the region have yet to realize that countercyclical fiscal policy implies rowing against the current in both parts of the cycle: spending more when times are bad (the easy part) and spending less when times are good (the true test of virtue).
In contrast, by
virtue
of competing in the global market, South Korea's military dictatorship had no choice but to invest in education to improve its workforce.
By
virtue
of his unique personal history, he can bridge Africa, America, and even Asia – where he studied as a young boy in a Muslim school – thereby reviving the universal image and message of America.
Proclaiming fiscal
virtue
enabled them to practice fiscal vice.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japan was criticized by the US as an “unfair trader” by
virtue
of its soaring manufacturing exports.
Nevertheless, hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, and the fact that racists and sexists must pay this tribute is an indication of some moral progress.
Eurozone members facing a loss of competitiveness can no longer afford to skirt difficult but necessary reforms through a monetary “quick fix” that shifts the burden onto their trade partners: as always, beggar-thy-neighbor policies reward laxity and penalize
virtue.
On the contrary, far from being banished from bond markets, they have generally bounced back quickly: investors like a sinner who returns to solvency better than a paragon of
virtue
on the verge of suffocation.
By
virtue
of demographics alone, it stands to reason that Africa is destined to generate prodigies in science or technology.
And, unlike past protests, which have usually been allied with students or members of the intelligentsia, popular disaffection might not have the
virtue
of rational leaders with whom the government could talk and negotiate.
The
virtue
of such a framework is to take into account the impact of temporarily weaker output on fiscal outcomes.
Machiavelli addressed the importance of ethics for leaders, but primarily in terms of the impression that visible displays of
virtue
made upon followers.
The appearance of
virtue
is an important source of a leader’s soft power or the ability to get what one wants by attraction rather than coercion or payment.
When we cannot be sure how to improve the world, prudence becomes an important virtue, and grandiose visions can pose grave dangers.
Not surprisingly, the last time American culture had such a reversal of iconography was during the Great Depression, when films like “The Grapes of Wrath” cast down-to-earth simplicity – versus the corruption of wealthy elites – as a shining
virtue.
Can indifference ever be a
virtue?
Tolerance becomes the cardinal European
virtue
in this vision, and the EU’s character as an entity with federal law but without federal statehood is viewed as a strength, not a weakness.
Indeed, one
virtue
of democracy is its ability to dampen violent tendencies.
Having assumed responsibility for my signature, I think that it is only right to be here in these critical days, trying to expand on the list of arguments which explain, by
virtue
of nature, why war is a dirty thing.
In the eighteenth century, Voltaire constructed an analogous argument, claiming that religion’s major
virtue
was its social usefulness.
The principle underlying the Golden Shield is that “as
virtue
rises one foot, vice rises ten.”
To be sure, this is largely a case of
virtue
arising from necessity; as export-driven growth has slowed, the risk of social unrest over issues like air pollution, food toxicity, and corruption has risen.
Moreover, in a discipline that regards ingenuity as the ultimate virtue, those who engage in the grunt work of data cleaning and replication receive few rewards.
As one Confucian classic put it: Possessing
virtue
will give the ruler the people.
Seeking to dispel skepticism, he declared that “Pakistan and Hindustan by
virtue
of contiguity and mutual interests will be friends in this subcontinent.”
Powerful nations, by
virtue
of contributing senior personnel and money, gain greater access.
And the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, long positioned as a beacon of
virtue
in a sector known for its ethically dubious behavior, has been accused of bribery, tax fraud, price fixing, and improper research practices.
There is also an added advantage in replacing CSR with PSR: there is
virtue
in diversity of approaches to altruism.
But Putin’s simulacrum of Sovietism began to collapse much faster, partly by
virtue
of the fact that his regime’s ideology never had much substance to begin with, and so couldn’t begin to be used as a prop.
Restraint is not, after all, a Leninist
virtue.
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