Even Polish business, usually a harsh critic of the government's statist economic policies, is pleased.
England lurched in a statist direction postwar that made it a less attractive destination for investment.
In reality, many Republican politicians pursue similar statist paths, betraying their principles and constituents.
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He ran the mildly statist UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
His was the statist world of business book gurus, not the entrepreneurial reality of high-tech's mean streets.
Of course, most conservatives might despair over the populists' tendency to embrace statist solutions to our economic problems.
Since then, Spain and Portugal have erased most traces of their authoritarian and statist past, whereas Turkey has dawdled.
For a welfare statist, though, your happiness is not a morally legitimate goal.
That reverses the statist policies of Eric Williams, a Marxist historian who led the country to independence from Britain in 1962.
For the same reasons Germany (which likes to cast a deciding vote between free-market and statist arguments) wanted Britain in the room.
Yes, Obama has been a reckless big spender, but he is merely continuing the irresponsible statist policies of his predecessor.
Which is why pretty much everyone believed it would be France - with its statist and interventionist penchant - which would blow up the transaction.
Thus macroeconomic policy was previously broadly liberal, energy policy dirigiste, social policy welfarist, nationality policy inclusive but with an ethnic Russian face, and foreign policy statist.
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Turks view the disinflation programme as part and parcel of a hoped-for transition from an introverted, statist and authoritarian past to a liberal, democratic and cosmopolitan future.
Despite hopes bandied about by businessmen, there never was much prospect of this leftist government bringing economic reform to India's statist financial sector or protected retail industry.
But in the United States, where respect for the Bible remains high, the left more often attempts to appropriate religious language, misquoting it in support of statist solutions.
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When American cities embraced the high cost, high regulation statist model two generations or so ago, they were often the richest and most dynamic places in the country.
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As a conservative, I narrowly backed George Bush over Al Gore in 2000, because I found Gore's newly statist and populist persona to be fake, and worryingly left-wing.
It is Hegelian and organicist without being collectivist or statist.
Entitlement spending is the driver of deficits, but entitlement reforms, such as raising the retirement age or converting Medicare to grants, collide with the core of liberal statist thinking.
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France's President Jacques Chirac has already pushed his prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin , to fall on his own sword, replacing him with the loyal and statist Dominique de Villepin .
Besides, increased dependency trends well for their statist tendencies.
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Tragically, both abject dependency and a general collectivist-statist trend have been building in America for most of the past century, after corrosive ideological premises were imported from Europe starting in the 1880s.
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The Chirac they describe lacks the degree of clear direction and application to haul a country as complex as France on to a fresh track away from its old feather-bedded, statist ways.
One explanation for Mr Chirac's embrace of a soft-left, statist, instinctively anti-capitalist creed could be that he is playing Mr Blair's post-ideological game of stealing the opposition's clothes ahead of the 2007 presidential election.
The statist urge remains strong in the Lib Dems: conference delegates passed motions supporting new levies on unhealthy drinks, opposing new airport runways and rejecting plans to make it easier to build house extensions.
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While many countries have differed in their statist approach, it has all been variations of the same team with a much-needed emphasis on social services and income distribution, sometimes coupled with a more closed economy.
The fact is that many British people continue to make assumptions about the duties of the state towards its citizens which are closer to the social democratic ideas of continental Europe than to the more individualist, anti-statist traditions of America.
The mood of paralysis seemed to be captured at the European Union's summit in Lisbon last week, after which France was cast as Europe's laggard: too stubborn to abandon its old statist ways, too reluctant to pursue market reform, too proud to admit the merits of American liberal economics.
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