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As Ipsos MORI’s Social Research Institute reports: “The assumption of an automatically better future for the next generation is gone in much of the West.”
In fact, the evidence does not always support this assumption.
President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign narrative was based on the assumption that the US has fallen from its former greatness.
Even under the now seemingly heroic assumption that the eurozone will survive, the outlook for the European economy is bleak.
This approach is based on the assumption that, if everyone is fully compensated for the net benefits that they confer on others, individuals pursuing their own self-interest will, as Adam Smith put it, be led, “as if by an invisible hand,” to serve the public interest as well.
A disorderly Greek exit from the euro – currently the greatest danger – can be averted only if both sides operate on the assumption that the upcoming negotiations are not about who wins and who loses.
Furthermore, budget support that’s linked to national poverty-reduction strategies also rests on the questionable assumption that the political economy of a partner country works to the benefit of the poorest.
To be sure, some very able economists seem to share this assumption.
The surge in business and consumer sentiment reflects an assumption that is deeply rooted in the American psyche: that deregulation and tax cuts always unleash transformative pro-growth entrepreneurship.
(To some outside the US, it is an assumption that sometimes looks a lot like blind faith.)
That assumption is a myth.
Moreover, the EKC perpetuates an erroneous assumption – that environmental damage will not curtail economic growth.
Watson is right that questioning this assumption is not, in itself, racist.
Borrowing from the Castro brothers’ playbook in Cuba, the Maduro regime is proceeding under the assumption that the only way to survive is by crushing the will of the people.
But it would be strange to conclude from Greece’s experience that wage deflation is a useless tool for improving competitiveness, given the widespread assumption that Germany benefited massively from it.
The Polish economist Michal Kalecki, a co-inventor of Keynesian economics (and a distant relative of mine), predicted this politically motivated ideological reversal with uncanny accuracy back in 1943:“The assumption that a government will maintain full employment in a capitalist economy if it knows how to do it is fallacious.
The third option, acquisition of nuclear armaments by potentially threatened countries, was based on the assumption that a government would be willing to use such weapons to defend its own country, if not another one.
On the contrary, she operated on the assumption that the euro was “a machine from hell” – a mess and a burden for her and her country.
That was a reasonable assumption back in January.
Those that did appear generally seem to be based on the assumption that minor fluctuations in construction costs, not massive market swings, drove the modest home price movements that they noted.
Was financial institutions’ assumption of excessive risk the result of incompetence or stupidity, or was it a rational response to the implicit guarantee offered by the government?
This assumption underpinned a broad global consensus on trade rules, including the relatively consistent protection of property rights.
With Pakistan, no such assumption can be made.
While an increase of this magnitude would be plausible if a forecaster had previously expected tax rates to increase in 2011, it would not have been reasonable to forecast 2.5% growth in the first place with that assumption in mind.
In Mexico there is still the assumption that homosexuality is a disease, as well as a social problem to be eradicated.
But researchers who have examined non-economic data, not least migrants’ responses to surveys, have good reason to cast doubt on this assumption.
That assumption would be wrong because, in December, the US Congress passed a sweeping tax bill that will, at least in the short term, disproportionately benefit higher-income households.
But it would be irrational to reject a solution with the potential to save so many lives based on an unsubstantiated assumption.
Mainstream economics is founded on the assumption that human beings are motivated by exogenously given preferences – what economists call “utility functions.”
The continent shuts down on the assumption that nothing of consequence will happen until everyone returns, suitably tanned, in September.
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