Not exact matches
This implies a slowdown in reforms that increase the private sector's productivity and
economic share, together with a greater
economic role
for state - owned enterprises (and
for state - owned banks in the allocation of credit and savings), as well as resource
nationalism, trade protectionism, import - substitution industrialisation policies, and imposition of capital controls.
As President Donald Trump takes the country closer to an
economic nationalism that calls
for tearing up agreements like NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership, potentially enacting higher tariffs on imports and obsessing over trade deficits, it is worth reflecting on a similar debate that inflamed the electorate 130 years ago.
Economic theory developed in a context in which nationalism was taken for granted as the context of economic a
Economic theory developed in a context in which
nationalism was taken
for granted as the context of
economic a
economic activity.
To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and
nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process:
for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic,
economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.
To quote Paul Brass in his essay on ethnicity and
nationalism, «The cultural and religious forms, values and practices of South Asian countries have become political resources of the elite in competition
for political power and
economic advantages.»
This book presents itself as a «manifesto»
for an American future of «liberal
nationalism» that will succeed the various phases in which a «white overclass» has manipulated
economic and political power in its own interests.
When the «depressed classes «awaken to their rights and begin the struggle
for social and
economic equality, and when the members of the «aboriginal «tribes, who have been peacefully secluded
for centuries from the main stream of Indian
nationalism, join with others in demanding their rights, fundamentalist groups and the monied classes oppose such moves.
Moreover, the Zionist settlement contributed greatly to exacerbating Palestinian Arab
nationalism; and dialectically — through its development of the country and raising of hygienic,
economic and cultural levels — it provided the sinews
for a strong indigenous nationalist movement.
As Eugene Rumer and Rajan Menon note in their 2015 book Conflict in Ukraine, Putin's focus on creating
economic nationalism has encouraged the Russian military to produce arms domestically without regard
for cost.
But there were other reactions — the SPD's candidate
for the Chancellorship in 1990, Oskar Lafontaine, was critical of what he saw as Kohl's outmoded
nationalism and warned of the
economic consequences of unification.
In some way, we have to find a brake, and finally gradually transform the underlying forces to brought us where we are now: — unreserved capitalism (by redefining what capital is and who it belongs to)-- freedom of personal development, — juridical and financial autonomy of corporations (every action or inaction by a corporation must be accounted
for by real people — consumerism, —
nationalism and regionalism, — confiscation of communal resources by
economic parties, juridical and political support
for any of those above)
But as long as this human discord stays unchallenged --(by keeping capitalism, freedom of personal development, allowing juridical autonomy of corporations, consumerism,
nationalism and regionalism, confiscation of communal resources by
economic parties, juridical and political support
for any of those above)-- humanity will have to face a truly horrific era the likes it has not seen before.
The underlying impetus
for the U.S. threat to NAFTA is a growing
economic nationalism that has fueled an unapologetic «America First» platform.