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But, even giving the administration the benefit of the doubt and accepting the possibility of sustained 3% GDP growth for the US, another set of critical
assumptions
drive the rosy deficit and debt projections produced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): the expected level and path of interest rates.
The NIE also confirmed two
assumptions
that have since guided European diplomatic approach: Iran reacts to external incentives and disincentives, and taking legitimate Iranian interests into consideration is the best way to influence Iran’s leaders.
The nature and scale of this exodus have rendered all previous legal and political
assumptions
about migration obsolete.
In the US, more generous
assumptions
regarding discount rates are used to calculate pension-fund liabilities.
A few geniuses aside, economists frame their
assumptions
to suit existing states of affairs, and then invest them with an aura of permanent truth.
The delusion is based on two false assumptions: that the Iranians and the Syrians can succeed in Iraq where the US has failed, and that the international community can afford to pay the price of ensuring their cooperation.
But his argument was not foolish; it was the
assumptions
underlying it that turned out to be wrong.
Western expectations of postcommunist Russia’s trajectory rested on three
assumptions
that proved to be mistaken.
But because these contracts price in
assumptions
about the future, commodity prices can fluctuate wildly.
Today,
assumptions
about gender (such as innate differences in abilities) have become intellectually untenable, while rigorous statistical analysis has identified the prime causes of gender differences in economic outcomes.
Even with optimistic assumptions, the International Energy Agency estimates that, by 2035, we will produce just 2.4% of our energy from wind and 0.8% from solar.
One type chooses, for non-economic and non-scientific reasons, a political stance and a set of political allies, and twiddles and tunes his or her
assumptions
until they yield conclusions that fit their stance and please their allies.
Here, too, no mathematical formula can help, because what we need to test is the reasonableness of our
assumptions.
Building a Caring EconomyDAVOS – Today’s mainstream economic models are based on two fundamental assumptions: first, humans are essentially selfish actors who act rationally to advance their own utility – so-called homo economicus; but, second, as Adam Smith’s metaphor of an “invisible hand” was intended to suggest, self-regarding behavior can inadvertently advance the common good.
Both
assumptions
are patently false.
They are spoon-fed models of the economy, based on unreal assumptions, and tested on their competence in solving mathematical equations.
They would then see that no one should be excluded because of inaccurate, outdated, or unfair
assumptions.
And Copenhagen is not alone in making such assumptions; the United Kingdom’s Department of Energy & Climate Change estimates a 51% price increase by 2030.
Such
assumptions
seem like a poor framework on which to build significant public policy, and seem to ignore the substantial cost of eliminating fossil fuels, which is likely to amount to at least 5% of GDP per year.
Like many other recent reports on the topic, this one starts from unargued – and largely unwarranted –
assumptions
and arrives at anodyne conclusions.
Stephen Roach of Yale University responded to Japan’s April consumer-price data by tackling a central economic problem of our time: missing inflation, which will likely continue to vex central bankers and challenge long-held economic
assumptions
across advanced economies in 2018 and beyond.
At a time when four powerful forces are disrupting the global economy, upending most of our assumptions, such pronouncements on the future, shaped by intuitions based on the past, are even more likely to be wrong.
In assessing Clinton’s statements on this topic, the fact-checkers make much of the finding by Blinder and Watson that, contrary to widespread assumptions, fiscal and monetary policies are not more “pro-growth” or expansionary under Democrats than under Republican presidents, and therefore cannot explain the performance differential.
Contrary to glib assumptions, globalization of capital, trade, and migration flows is not “good for everyone.”
Based on current economic assumptions, the US needs about $4 trillion in savings to stabilize the debt/GDP ratio over the next decade.
On conservative
assumptions
about future economic growth, however, in a century’s time world per capita income levels are likely to be over four times as high as they are now.
He believes that Prime Minister Tony Blair was the first leader to recognize Thatcherism for what it was: a new ideology that upended long-held rules and
assumptions.
Economics has always had its critics, of course, but the financial crisis and its aftermath have given them fresh ammunition, seeming to validate long-standing charges against the profession’s unrealistic assumptions, reification of markets, and disregard for social concerns.
The Government of Southern Sudan suffers from serious financial constraints, owing to unrealistic
assumptions
about its oil revenues.
Moreover, any attempt to misrepresent requires further and more complex misrepresentations, which have serious consequences as subsequent decisions come to be based on erroneous
assumptions.
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