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But this assumption misses multiple points.
But cultures that tend to resent the economically successful – either as an affront to equality, or on the implicit assumption that the economic gains of some must be at the expense of others – tend to be more hostile toward Jews and given to conspiratorial theories to explain their economic success.
The assumption is that only real pressure will finally force Sudan’s government to embrace the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force, negotiate with the West, disband the feared Janjaweed militia, allow refugees from the country’s brutal civil war to return to their villages, and make peace with Southern rebels.
Yet I support independence only on the assumption that Scotland and the RUK would remain part of a strong and effective EU and NATO.
China’s adventurism and its blithe assumption that it can deal with any international dictator it wishes and disturb the delicate military balance in outer space is emblematic of something sinister and dangerous.
The euro was built on the assumption that markets correct their own excesses, and that imbalances arise only in the public sector.
I’ll make the optimistic but plausible assumption that the economy will fully recover over the next decade, lowering the unemployment rate from the current 10% to about 5%.
Operating on the assumption that the government will back them – or bail them out if they fail – they can afford to be cavalier.
The claim rested on the assumption of a large reduction in global energy use.
This assumption is based on a number of such trades, including 1,150 Arabs, mostly Palestinians, for three Israelis in 1985; 123 Lebanese for the remains of two Israeli soldiers in 1996; and 433 Palestinians and others for an Israeli businessman and the bodies of three soldiers in 2004.
There is plenty of reason to question this assumption.
Many Muslims see that erroneous assumption as evidence of the West’s contempt for Islam, reinforcing their view that Muslims as a whole are victims of discrimination and creating a vicious cycle that may generate further radicalization on both sides.
Keynes thought that the chief implicit assumption underlying the classical theory of the economy was that of perfect knowledge.
Today’s “efficient market theory” restored to economics the assumption of perfect knowledge by claiming that all risks are correctly priced.
Stiglitz’s Sticky PricesWASHINGTON, DC – For a long time, the assumption underlying much of mainstream economics was that the invisible hand worked its magic seamlessly.
But even for them, the concept was only an assumption; they never managed to explain why wages and interest rates so often resisted the pressures of supply and demand.
Stiglitz’s work reminds us of the risk of basing polices on the assumption that interest rates rise and fall smoothly.
After a prolonged period of accelerating demand growth, notably from China, governments came to regard high commodity prices as semi-permanent – an assumption that caused them to overestimate their future revenues.
The problem, for some, is the assumption that new technological breakthroughs are incomparable to those in the past.
To A Ukrainian SpringEvery person living in Ukraine is forced to believe in three great falsehoods: the first consists of the assumption that all of today's humiliating disorders - economic collapse, poverty, unemployment - are natural consequences of our postcommunist transition.
To be sure, Zucman’s relies on the unproven assumption that there are important data to be found in what is usually classified as “errors and omissions.”
The underlying assumption, shared by aid donors like the World Bank and the African Development Bank, is that more investment in the national grid, coupled with utility reform, will cause power to trickle down to the people.
The naive part of this plan is the assumption that MPs from Milosevic's Socialist Party, the Yugoslav United Left (the small but influential party of Mrs. Milosevic) and Vojislav Seselj's ultra-nationalist Radical Party, would vote against their government and for a new one from which they could not benefit.
For starters, while recent studies have concluded that higher levels of inequality produce lower long-term growth, other data have challenged this assumption, making definitive claims that are impossible to support, partly because different sources and types of inequality likely have different impacts on growth.
The fact that Israel could always count on US backing, especially on such public occasions as congressional speeches by an Israeli leader, only confirmed the assumption of many people around the world that Israel and the US are joined like Siamese twins.
So far, the Arab revolts have vindicated the assumption that, given the structure of most Arab societies, toppling secular autocracies inevitably means opening the door to Islamic democracies.
But the assumption that Trump’s policies will lead to higher prices and wages doesn’t square with the details of his proposals.
It requires an increasingly controversial assumption: all human beings - whatever their achievements, competences, status, or health - are equally significant members of society, whose strength ultimately lies in what they can do together.
The reason is simple: Our societies and economies are based on the flawed assumption that perpetual growth is possible on a finite planet.
And yet, despite the growing evidence to the contrary, the assumption that all capital flows are beneficial has proved remarkably resilient.
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