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Some were so tormented by the idea of French decadence that they welcomed the German invasion in 1940 as a necessary shock that would restore manly virtues.
Clinton used all of these virtues to their highest possible effect.
China’s Brittle Development ModelNEW DELHI – After gaining independence from Britain in 1947, India was something of a poster child for the virtues of democracy – in stark contrast with China, which became a Communist dictatorship in 1949.
Technocrats and financial market players who benefit from this institutional arrangement have done an impressive job of convincing many countries of its virtues, and of the need to treat monetary policy as a technical matter that should be put above politics.
The virtues of the new regime are first praised, but then they are told that the macroeconomic policy decisions about which they care most are too important to be left to democratic processes.
Now Western political elites are making another mistake when – seemingly cowed by the populists – they fail to mount a full-throated defense of liberalism’s virtues.
In India, as elsewhere, there will always be a choice between a world of edicts and crusades, where orthodoxies rule and foreign heresies are ruthlessly suppressed, and a world in which the virtues of tolerance, dissent, and cooperation are recognized and practiced.
Gone are confident assertions about the virtues of liberalization, deregulation, privatization, and free markets.
Some argued that authoritarian rule provided a much surer and safer path to welfare than democracy could offer, others extolled the virtues of “Asian values,” and still others argued that democracy in the Arab or Muslim world would only pave the way for Islamic fundamentalists to take power.
Geremek knew that a feeling of national identity and pride is priceless, and that in Poland, condemned to struggle for independence, they are necessary virtues.
And yet Trump extols the virtues of unpredictability – a potentially useful tactic when bargaining with enemies, but a disastrous approach to reassuring friends.
After all, Christianity lists gluttony as one of the seven deadly sins, while temperance is one of the cardinal virtues.
Markets, for all their virtues, often do not work well in a crisis.
In order to practice Scandinavian virtues, many believe, you must come from a cold-weather country with a small, homogeneous population that accepts high taxes without grumbling.
Germany (like China) views its high savings and export prowess as virtues, not vices.
When an entire government appears on the make and on the take, people are easy prey for any demagogue who promises to replace the real vices of a sick democracy with the imaginary virtues of a sound dictatorship.
That led to a surge in imports that was not accompanied by a proportional increase in exports, widening the current-account deficit to 4.6% of GDP and sowing doubt about the virtues of the new approach.
President Barack Obama’s administration is championing the virtues of trade; but, in developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
Some years ago, the Asian Development Bank defended the virtues of competitive pluralism.
Raja Mohan, a prominent Indian strategist, notes that Europe “has never ceased to lecture Asia on the virtues of regionalism,” but now seems unable to cope with its own regional security challenges.
While praising the virtues of the free market, Bush has been only too willing to give huge handouts to the energy industry, even as the country faces soaring deficits.
Economists teach the virtues of open trade because it benefits us – not because it benefits others.
When politicians advocate a particular set of values – or virtues – voters listen.
Similarly, anyone who has stood next to a diesel vehicle, even one proclaiming the virtues of “clean diesel,” could tell that it was smellier than cars powered by gasoline.
Traditionally, instead, foreign aid paid no attention to the virtues of the receiving countries and did not discriminate in favor of "good governments."
The same happens to great – or not-so-great – political leaders, who become symbolic vehicles for inculcating civic virtues.
Kolnai seems to have read every turgid treatise – most written by third-rate thinkers – extolling the martial, self-sacrificing, blood-and-soil virtues of the Land of Heroes, and damning the materialistic, liberal democratic, bourgeois societies in the Lands of Merchants (that is to say, the West).
What makes news nowadays is the growing list of mainstream economists who are questioning globalization’s supposedly unmitigated virtues.
For one thing, America’s artificial inflation of sugar prices can come across as hypocritical, given the country’s fondness for lecturing the world about the virtues of the free market.
If we want to persuade others to subscribe to it, we do well to demonstrate that we not only believe in elections and majorities but also in the virtues of responsibility and honor.
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