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But there is no denying that the US government today is infinitely more virtuous than it was in the days of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, or Teddy Roosevelt.
As the Nordic model shows, high employment is good for the economy because it ensures adequate tax revenues to finance high levels of social investment, which creates a virtuous cycle.
If that pain occurs against a backdrop of frustration with the unequal distribution of AI’s benefits, it may trigger a backlash against technologies that could otherwise produce a virtuous cycle of higher productivity, income growth, and employment-boosting demand.
Intensive discussions since September among Japanese government, business, and labor leaders have been geared toward setting in motion an upward, virtuous cycle whereby increased wages lead to more robust growth.
The result will be a virtuous cycle of development that benefits everyone – and that moves the world significantly closer to achieving the ambitious goals that it has adopted.
One idea is that environmental technology might feed a virtuous cycle of innovation and employment.
My country is living proof that investing in health is not only the right thing to do, but that it can also create virtuous cycles that promote security and development.
These factors, more than any virtuous policy change in recent years, are propelling growth.
The right has started to regroup, and Obama will surely point to this virtuous cycle as one in which the US has played a positive role, and can continue to do so.
Virtuous though democracy is – and as Tunisia has shown, it is far better than the alternative – we should remember the failures of those who claim its mantle, and that there is more to true democracy than periodic elections, even when they are conducted fairly.
In a virtuous circle, FDI reinforced trade openness: according to the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, 80% of Hungary's exports are generated by companies fully or partially owned by foreigners.
Moreover, virtuous creditors should not bail out irresponsible borrowers, be they private or public.
India is less urbanized than China, and it is in the early stages of benefiting from the virtuous forces that normally accompany that process.
But it is easier because once those constraints are appropriately targeted, relatively simple policy changes can yield enormous economic payoffs and start a virtuous cycle of growth and institutional reform.
The logic of centrality as a source of power creates a virtuous circle, in which members of a network gain advantage by bringing more members into the network and connecting more densely to them.
Are today's democracies virtuous enough to rally the energies - including self-sacrifice - needed to defeat their enemies?
Thanks to the Venetian central bank’s reliable prevention of V$ depreciation, confidence in the currency continues to grow, creating a virtuous cycle.
While the word does not retain its original virtuous connotations, we still warm to the virtuosity of “doing more with less.”
It opted for virtuous abstention.
It may inspire virtuous feelings, but its vain symbolism reveals exactly what is wrong with today’s feel-good environmentalism.
But an economic boost could serve as an important source of much-needed hope – and the start of a virtuous circle of peace and prosperity.
Add to that exchange-rate appreciation and rising minimum-wage floors – not to mention public-sector disbursements indexed to the latter – and Brazil enjoyed a virtuous domestic cycle featuring positive feedback loops between demand for services and formal employment.
Rigorous measurement of social performance, alongside traditional economic indicators, is crucial to starting the virtuous circle by which GDP growth improves social and environmental performance in ways that drive even greater economic success.
This virtuous circle is the reason why Poland is introducing a stringent anti-cyclical budget rule that prohibits any unwarranted fiscal loosening, while gradually lowering its debt/GDP ratio to about 40%.
Machiavellian EconomicsPRINCETON – When is it legitimate to lie?Can lying ever be virtuous?
The economic variant of Machiavellianism is as powerful as the claim that political untruth can be virtuous.
Confucianism was essentially a philosophical justification of government by benevolent bureaucracy under a virtuous ruler.
In concert with the development bank’s virtuous impact, credit and investment flows would flood the Greek economy’s hitherto arid realms, eventually helping the bad bank turn a profit and become “good.”
This virtuous circle is still seen by globalization’s enemies as in fact a vicious one, encouraging exploitation of the poor and vulnerable.
This means more than passing a few virtuous sounding resolutions in the Duma.
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