Virtue
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The notion that a self-appointed set of activists, in conjunction with some governments and international agencies, can determine what a corporation should do by way of CSR contradicts the liberal notion that we should ask for
virtue
to be pursued, but not in a particular way.
Opprobrium was best heaped, I believed, on Paul Krugman, as he makes such a
virtue
of heaping it on others.
Ordinary citizens often do get what they want, by
virtue
of the fact that their preferences frequently are similar to those of the elite.
Moreover, while Nigeria is formally a democracy, the balance of power between citizens and public officials, including those at state and local government levels, is skewed in favor of the latter by
virtue
of their easy access to oil revenues.
There is a
virtue
to having a meeting with a virtual component: businesses are global, and so are their investors, who can participate without having to get on a plane.
Public spending cuts come more naturally to Conservatives, and they have – despite their lack of candor – attempted to make a
virtue
out of this necessity.
So, like St. Augustine, they promise virtue, but not until next year.
The fact that he distances himself so emphatically from the same Islamist movement with which he has on occasion rubbed elbows, is, at worst, vice’s tribute to
virtue.
If freer trade reduces poverty, it is presumptuous for the critics to claim greater
virtue.
The subsequent retreat to fiscal
virtue
triggered the 1938 “Roosevelt Recession.”
Any society that made a
virtue
out of his reckless and self-serving behavior could not function, much less prosper.
Transparency is usually a
virtue
to be encouraged.
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush advised Americans that they should not allow the trauma of the attacks to interfere with their ordinary shopping, and implied that buying had become a patriotic duty and
virtue.
When we cannot be sure how to improve the world, prudence becomes an important virtue, and hubristic visions can pose a grave danger.
Adam Smith recognized this even before David Ricardo explained the
virtue
of free trade.
Instead, a distorted view of what competitiveness really is (mis)leads politicians to consider large external surpluses an unqualified good and a testament to virtue, whatever the consequences abroad.
The hope is that markets will reward virtue, which is defined as austerity.
One
virtue
of kizuna can be seen in people’s inability to enjoy themselves in their usual ways in the face of the loss of so many countrymen and the knowledge that 200,000 more are enduring harsh conditions in evacuation centers.
Capitalism has perhaps eroded rents that workers in advanced countries enjoy by
virtue
of where they were born.
Royal’s chief
virtue
is that she has not taken part in the numerous internal battles that infuriate socialist militants and voters, and her lack of direct association with the party’s leadership has enabled her to avoid blame for its mistakes.
A century ago, the economist and political scientist Joseph Schumpeter argued that the central
virtue
of a market economy was its capacity to innovate.
Many philosophers since Aristotle have argued that human beings thrive when they are part of close-knit communities imbued with strong norms of civic
virtue.
Strict Protestants make a
virtue
out of brutal frankness, because they believe they have a direct pipeline to God.
Fibrinopeptides are short sequences that are relatively easy to purify and have the
virtue
of changing significantly from species to species.
This would ultimately benefit the reserve assets’ owners, who, by
virtue
of accumulating large surpluses, have a similar interest in world economic and financial stability.
Such constraints are particularly strong when the government must operate within a wider polity, as is true of Greece by
virtue
of its EU membership.
Under these circumstances, budgetary recklessness is a virtue, at least in the short term.
Its
virtue
is that it gives policymakers something clear to do, with promised returns that match the political cycle.
In short, dietetics was a matter of
virtue
as well as of bodily health.
Both parade their fiscal
virtue
and insist that deficit countries stop their irresponsible spending.
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