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the so-called 'Laffer curve', evoked by free-market advocates as a reason against excessive taxation

dispensing with the non-Russian republics would have been to destroy much of the party nomenklatura

since meeting these financial dictates/expectations is the condition of maintaining the constitutional order, they have priority over the constitution (and eo ipso state sovereignty)

Hans Tietmeyer, then government of the Deutsches Bundesbank, who praised national governments for preferring 'the permanent plebiscite of global markets' to the 'plebiscite of the ballot box'

Recall Habermas's notion of distorted communication (distorted because of extra-linguistic power relations of oppression and domination)