Sentences with phrase «by economic liberals»

The key issues include tax; nuclear power; the living wage (vociferously opposed by economic Liberals, who dispute the Resolution Foundation's work to demonstrate the economic benefits and savings to the exchequer); Trident replacement; and higher education where the party may struggle to avoid reopening the self - inflicted wounds of late 2010.

Not exact matches

The Liberals can argue that beyond the social good provided by its spending initiatives, some of its policies do carry an economic benefit.

And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

Milrad said he saw the populist rhetoric as a sign that Clinton «has been listening» to backers such as himself who want her to embrace some of the economic policies pushed by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a hero of liberal Democrats.

«In the tough economic times ahead, we need a Conservative majority led by Harper to make the difficult decisions without the inevitable bickering from the Liberals and NDP,» wrote one CEO.

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

Lindsey, like Hassett a Republican, characterized recent comments made by liberals Krugman and Summers as «economic name - calling.»

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Posted by Louis - Philippe Rochon under Canada, Conservative government, economic growth, income tax, inequality, Liberal Party policy.

The Government has continued the practice, first adopted by the Liberals in 1996, of using the average of the private sector economic forecasts for budget and fall update planning purposes.

The memo, obtained by the federal Liberals, discussed economic factors surrounding the transportation of oil by rail, but didn't flag any safety concerns.

Moore has oft repeated his mantra that supporting the arts makes good economic sense, in a statement perceived by some as criticism of the B.C. Liberal government's cuts to arts funding.

In the legislature, Trevena and fellow New Democrats pressed the B.C. Liberals for answers after an economic impact study by the City of Prince Rupert found that the government's ferry service cuts could cause «serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy.»

A final ironic and unintended economic consequence of the Trump immigration reform plan could be a «brain drain,» as educated and potentially wealthy liberals look to escape a controversial Trump presidency, namely by moving to Canada.

The Liberals embraced the recommendations of many economists, including ourselves, that with a sustainable fiscal situation, they could strengthen long - term economic growth by undertaking infrastructure spending financed by borrowing at historically low interest rates.

Economic devastation and neglect — Changes by the B.C. Liberals to the Forest Act resulted in the concentration of ownership in the forest industry, reducing competition in many regions and ultimately killing tens of thousands of well - paying, family - supporting jobs.

Our preaching and theology has been one ceaseless effort to conform to the canons of intelligibility produced by the economic and intellectual formations characteristic of modern and liberal societies.

The broad - based economic prosperity of that «golden age» the conservatives all pine for was created by the New Deal, by liberal economics.

If those guys are largely right about the incentive factors that would then come into play (and especially if Americans were moderating their economic libertarianism with devotion to family, virtue, community, and God, as your work would urge them to), then by no means would that cause the social welfare policy disaster most liberals assume it would.

Wolin has described how the liberal discontent with all forms of political authority led to a fascination with the idea that economic society could be a «self - adjusting order,» a «network of activities carried on by actors who knew no principle of authority.»

Those evangelical «old style» missionaries still serving overseas are perceived by liberal / ecumenicals as supporting repressive economic and political systems in developing countries in order to achieve the «stability» that will enable them to gain admittance to those countries and be left free to evangelize.

This is a rude blow to the dangerous optimism promoted by liberal ideology, according to which the famous «invisible hand» is there to ensure that markets lead to a harmonious economic order, from which everyone would benefit.

When Hamilton tried to justify his ambitious economic program through a liberal reading of the Constitution's «necessary and proper» clause and by appealing to the transparently rhetorical «general welfare» of the eighth section of Article I, Madison's resistance might have been predicted.

However, the Thai government has hardly implemented any social policy towards rural and hilltribe people for equitable distribution of the wealth accumulated by its quite liberal economic development policy.

And so first - wave liberals are today represented by «conservatives» who stress the need for the scientific and economic mastery of nature but stop short of extending this project fully to human nature.

By a curious semantic reversal, freedom in classical «liberal» economics meant the absence of deliberate human intervention in economic processes.

The liberal optimism, which largely had abandoned the concept of sin and believed that the world could be put right by education and social and economic reform, was challenged by Karl Barth, Emil Brunner (1889 - 1966) and other continental European theologians.

The university's liberal Protestant leaders supported this national economic purpose not only by virtue of their class location but also as an extension of their religious hopes.

The collectivist view encourages the ruthlessness of which Heilbroner wrote, liberal society is somewhat restrained by its commitment to individuals, but it has paid a high price for its individualist economic theories.

On the level of reorganisation of the economic systems from negotiated and governed interdependence we should branch out from the old trodden paths and the enclosing corsets created by liberal globalisation (World Bank, IMF, WTO).

-LSB-...] blog sets out a social liberal approach to the economic challenges faced by the UK.

-LSB-...] current economic orthodoxy within the Parliamentary Party, and outside of it, such as «Plan C», authored by Dr Prateek Buch, and published by the Social Liberal Forum last year.

As a member of the Liberal Democrat Action on Land Taxation and Economic Reform group (ALTER), I am delighted by this excellent start.

Mike, perhaps rather than reading a couple of fringe blogs by right - libertarians (and even those don't hold the opinions you're attributing to them, but often talk about alternative economic ideas like a citizens» income) who are about as representative of mainstream Liberal Democrat thought as Tony Benn is of Labour, you should look at sites like http://socialliberal.net/, which more or less represents the mainstream of the party.

There has been a lot of discussion of a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on attitudes towards tackling economic inequality (at Directionless Bones, Left Luggage, Sunder Katwala on CiF, Don Paskini at Liberal Conspiracy, and David Osler).

The Social Liberal Forum's amendments to Nick Clegg's economy motion — supported by an unprecedented number of voting representatives — seek to ensure that the party retains distinctive, independent economic narrative up to and beyond the next election.

«As you know Labour are now in formal talks with the Liberal Democrats to see if we can agree a stable government to secure the economic recovery and change our politics,» the letter, signed by the joint general secretaries Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson, said.

Trump's «America First» agenda — typified by its economic protectionism and rejection of the established multilateral order — is entirely antithetical to the G20's previous commitments to reject protectionism and safeguard the liberal, rules - based, multilateral governance order.

Are these Liberal Democrats «okay» with making some of the most vulnerable people in our society pay for the economic mess caused by millionaire bankers?

As a member of the Social Liberal Forum Council and Executive, he published the SLF's acclaimed economic platform, Plan C, and has argued for social liberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and ProspLiberal Forum Council and Executive, he published the SLF's acclaimed economic platform, Plan C, and has argued for social liberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and Prospliberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and ProspLiberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and Prosperity).

This is an opportunity missed by Clegg — he's never made it clear what the Liberal Democrat contribution to the Tories» economic strategy is.

To take an example often cited by commentators, David Laws, regarded by many as an «economic liberal», is nevertheless an advocate of a very social - liberal view of redistribution.

However, Liberal Democrat movement on economic issues was more than offset, to my mind, by the party's outlook on a whole set of other ones.

Founded by a merger of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party, the party can be simplistically labelled as a mixture of economic liberalism and social liberalism, and it has become fashionable to insist that while the party could sit comfortably with such differences when in opposition, it is much trickier when in government, particularly as a minority party.

The debate opens with an amendment put forward by the Social Liberal Forum (SLF), a left - wing pressure group, for a change of economic policy.

«As New Yorkers are faced with a punishing economic climate fueled by Gov. Cuomo's special interest donors and liberal career politicians, Congressman Gibson's announcement of an exploratory committee for governor is a light at the end of the tunnel,» said Nojay, a conservative lawmaker from the Rochester area and a talk - radio host.

What is clear is that Vince is determined to present an economically credible, progressive and above all distinctly Liberal Democrat economic platform — as the Tories test their coalition partner's resolve by attempting to legislate for crushing austerity in the next Parliament, his defence of a Lib Dem approach to economic policy will matter more and more.

There has been a bit of a debate waging over the past week about «classical (or economic) liberals versus social liberals,» partly due to the launch of the Social Liberal Forum and exacerbated by a recent editorial in Liberator Magazine.

Vince Cable, economic spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, is the author of «The Storm: the World Economic Crisis and What It Means», published by Atlantic Books (economic spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, is the author of «The Storm: the World Economic Crisis and What It Means», published by Atlantic Books (Economic Crisis and What It Means», published by Atlantic Books (# 14.99)

He said: «We have to make sure that what we are doing is, in a sense, recreating the policies we saw in the Clinton - Blair era where we saw a pro-business liberal economic approach but combined with very strong policies and interventions by government in order to create opportunities for individuals and to redistribute income and wealth more fairly.»