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The world economy is hard-wired to the
assumption
of a strong America, and Americans benefit from this.
But the
assumption
of perfect knowledge proved unsustainable, so it was replaced by an ingenious device.
This condition was presented as a methodological requirement rather than an
assumption.
What allows economic theory to be converted into an ideology hostile to the open society is the
assumption
of perfect knowledge--at first openly stated and then disguised in the form of a methodological device.
This argument rests on the
assumption
of perfect knowledge.
At the time economic theory was born, in the age of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Alfred Marshall, this was a reasonable assumption, because people did, in fact, have firmly established moral beliefs.
Investment strategies should not be based on the
assumption
that all times are “normal” times, and that periodic instability is abnormal.
Their
assumption
is that Republicans will back free trade and oppose protectionism.
Liberalizing policies are justified in theory only by the
assumption
that political decisions will redistribute some of the gains from winners to losers in socially acceptable ways.
As it stands, while everyone agrees that researchers need extensive training, the prevailing
assumption
is that great teachers are born and great teaching just happens – a view that is hampering education at all levels.
This includes not only financial deregulation, but also central bank independence, the separation of monetary and fiscal policies, and the
assumption
that competitive markets require no government intervention to produce an acceptable income distribution, drive innovation, provide necessary infrastructure, and deliver public goods.
Under a flat-line export scenario, with no rise in US exports, and if everything else remains the same (always a heroic assumption), overall real GDP growth would converge on that 1.4% bogey.
By way of reference, the
assumption
of a 5% export downturn pales in comparison with the precipitous 13.6% decline in real exports that occurred in 2008-2009.
And, despite the absence of evidence that any given country or continent does not have LGBT people (and ample evidence to the contrary), it is an
assumption
that an increasing number of African leaders have embraced.
So far, we have liberalized national markets on the
assumption
that private companies would merge and integrate across borders.
Waiting out resource nationalism on the
assumption
that it is a cyclical phenomenon could prove to be a mistake.
All of the symbolic attributes of power have been transferred to Kim Jong-un – reflected in his official position in the funeral ceremonies, his presidency of the Military Commission, and his
assumption
of the ruling party’s highest rank – with remarkable speed.
Though I strongly believe that the US needs more progressive taxation, particularly of the top 0.1%, I don’t understand why he assumes that an 80% rate would not cause significant distortions, especially as this
assumption
contradicts a large body of work by the Nobel laureates Thomas Sargent and Edward Prescott.
But the large-scale destruction of financial assets because of underlying uncertainty about the extent of losses in the wake of the sub-prime crisis, and especially after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, shook that
assumption.
Another frequent cause of companies’ blind spots is historic bias, or what psychologists call an “anchoring bias” – the
assumption
that something that was true in the past will continue to be true in the future.
The
assumption
that the price of mailing a letter or shipping a package should remain constant throughout the year is ripe to be challenged.
Even simple methods, like writing down and challenging every
assumption
on which a company has based its strategy, can yield valuable insights.
Some suggest that North Korean leaders were determined to stage the launch before the first anniversary of Kim Jong-un’s
assumption
of power on December 17.
For many women, the challenge is abandoning the
assumption
that their work/family balance will have to tip in favor of family, that it is they who will have to sacrifice their careers.
First, there is little evidence to support the central bank’s
assumption
that a floating exchange rate will ensure macroeconomic consistency.
Under the
assumption
that the incoming Trump administration will ultimately refrain from triggering a trade war, they moved fast to price in optimistic prospects for higher real growth, higher inflation, and more money entering the financial markets.
At the time, this seemed a reasonable
assumption.
Fourth, the plan’s
assumption
about outward migration is controversial at best.
The danger is that overreach will lead civil society and voters in democratic developing countries to react against self-serving displays of hegemonic might by jettisoning free trade itself, on the
assumption
that such openness is little more than neo-colonialism.
Estimates of the fiscal multiplier must be based on an
assumption
or a model that says what would have happened in the absence of government spending of some type.
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