Some of the new purchasers have a similar attitude.

Not everyone will embrace such instruments.

Government sponsorship ensures that a certain number of people will adopt your product.

But there is no way to predict whether Europe s leaders will adopt this strategy.

So called Quantified Selfers are monitoring their blood pressure, sleep cycles, and body mass.

The pragmatic lesson remains unlearned because those who take this view perceive a different lesson.

Politicians would adopt the Baptists pious rhetoric, while quietly taking campaign contributions from the criminals.

However, Muslims in sub Saharan Africa, like most Muslims around the world, exhibit an us versus them mentality.

We are hopeful that Iraqis, who have had their fill of sectarian political parties, will be allowed freely to choose candidates who embrace a non sectarian and non racist agenda.

But China s rulers only sometimes embrace the designation and the Party still sometimes behaves as if it had only a tenuous hold on power.

Another is that economists were blinkered by an ideology according to which a free and unfettered market could do no wrong.

Of course, if Chinese policymakers could have predicted what has now happened in the world economy, they might have been less stringent in trying to rein in growth.

The French who said they wanted Britain to leave the EU were largely on the left, while many who held the opposite view were further to the right.

In her study, Barnes found that those who most benefit from achievement ideology (white males in higher class neighborhoods, for example) are most likely to espouse the achievement ideology.

Policymakers espousing debt write downs to spur growth should ask whether they have the political support to recapitalize banks if needed.

Despite all the grim news and auguries, there is some hope, owing to the increased political mobilization of Pakistan s middle classes, whose members have finally begun to question those espousing extremism.

It is sad to note that European leaders sometimes adopt such narrow positions, too, responding to the short term demands of electoral politics instead of facing the challenges of long term strategic thinking.

Policymakers seem to be of the same opinion, and not just in developing countries, judging by the EU s launch of its 2020 flagship last year and the United States green energy policy.

Equally important, the money gained through natural resources must be used to promote development. The old colonial powers regarded Africa simply as a place from which to extract resources.

But there is no way to predict whether Europe s leaders will adopt this strategy. After all, the EU s future depends on its members policies, which, in turn, depend on their diverse and variable political situations.

However, a small but increasing number of conservative thinkers while not democrats advocate a more pragmatic and conciliatory approach, essentially adopting the language that once worked so well for the now beleaguered reformists.

To those who take this view and on this point many Western businessmen are in complete agreement with the Chinese Communist Party the signatories of Charter 08 are simply out of touch with their own culture.

How do you convince your passionate followers if other, equally credentialed, economists take the opposite view? All too often, the path to easy influence is to impugn the other side s motives and methods, rather than recognizing and challenging an opposing argument s points.

What does this do to the legitimacy of governments, and of political institutions in general? As long as winners with razor thin majorities, once in office, steer a middle course, they are more likely to remain acceptable to an electorate that is more volatile than divided.

Do they vote, week after week, against tax cuts that would help 100 million Americans, while the economy deteriorates around them? Or do they embrace a deal that cuts taxes and tax rates relative to where they would be otherwise?

Yet defeats do not force new attitudes, policies, or leaders. The pragmatic lesson remains unlearned because those who take this view perceive a different lesson.

What is most tragic is that when leaders meet in Copenhagen this December, they will embrace more of the same solution promises of even more drastic emission reductions that, once again, are unlikely to be fulfilled.