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Commodifying human tissue - often without knowledge or consent - is troubling because it violates social
assumptions
and beliefs about the body.
Indeed, deficit-reduction programs were all too often founded on overly optimistic growth assumptions, and in times of robust economic growth, debt reduction was neglected.
Even with unrealistically generous assumptions, the unimpressive net effect is that solar power reduces Germany’s CO2 emissions by roughly eight million metric tons – or about 1% – for the next 20 years.
These may be reasonable assumptions, but the estimate was deeply unsettling to many.
The Greek Crisis and BeyondNEW YORK – As euro-zone leaders face growing uncertainty in financial markets about the public finances of Greece and other member countries, their statements, albeit somewhat vague, underscore a much larger story – one that will force firms and investors to question their
assumptions
about Europe’s economic, financial, and political environment.
When researchers at the Harvard Medical School analyzed surgical interventions in low- and middle-income countries, they found a remarkable disconnect between economic
assumptions
and reality.
The key is for participants on both sides to be more explicit about the values and objectives they believe that society should pursue, and to quantify their
assumptions
about how dynamic performance will respond to particular incentives.
This fear derives from two sources: the Party's lawless governance and an awareness of the way in which society has been defoliated of the shared
assumptions
that normally give a nation cohesion.
The countervailing
assumptions
of the inquisitorial and accusatorial systems reflect the ambiguity of the concept of scientific fraud.
Or perhaps the dividing line should be between propositions that depend on reasonable behavioral
assumptions
and those that depend on ludicrous ones.
Still, as in the interwar period, there are security threats today that will make rethinking economic
assumptions
necessary, if not inevitable.
Scholars can become so trapped in their methods – in the language and
assumptions
of the accepted approach to their discipline – that their research becomes repetitive or trivial.
That forecast, moreover, is based on quite optimistic
assumptions
of strong economic growth and low interest rates.
Second, a sound fiscal strategy requires establishing, on the basis of prudent economic assumptions, an ambitious budgetary target for the medium term, determining what mix of taxation and expenditure cuts are required in order to achieve it, and then sticking to the plan throughout economic fluctuations.
It was a miscalculation comparable to that of his predecessor, George W. Bush, who launched an invasion of Iraq on the erroneous
assumptions
not only that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, but also – and more important – that post-Saddam Iraq would quickly become a stable democracy.
As a result, emergency relief evaluations often rely on little more than guesswork and
assumptions.
And it undermines the operational
assumptions
that underpin the long-standing characterization of the US economy as vibrant and responsive.
With a willingness to challenge
assumptions
and change conventional perceptions, we can change the world for the better.
NEW HAVEN – Many public-policy decisions are based on implicit
assumptions
about “human nature,” and it is currently popular to speculate about how evolution might have shaped human behavior and psychology.
More importantly, China, India, Pakistan, Iran, and Israel might not be particularly impressed by Russian and American
assumptions
that they can meet their defense needs with far smaller nuclear arsenals.
At the very least, the national cultures of the major Western countries - their deep structures of ideology, taste, and aesthetics - are being changed, as new peoples, with new assumptions, demand that their sense of the world be taken into account.
The
assumptions
of established theories are not questioned, and securing beneficial outcomes is a matter of quantifying probabilities of adverse events and consequently managing the associated risks.
As long as the basic
assumptions
hold, the conclusions follow.
But when we examine the relevant
assumptions
closely, we find that they do not apply to the real world.
The supposedly scientific theory that has been used to validate it turns out to be an axiomatic structure whose conclusions are contained in its
assumptions
and are not necessarily supported by the empirical evidence.
In the third phase, dominated by Thatcher and Reagan, these
assumptions
were reversed: government was usually wrong and the market always right.
Moreover, politicians must reconsider much of the ideological super-structure erected on market fundamentalist
assumptions.
Instead of seeking definitive global judgments about the risks of particular choices, it is wiser to consider the
assumptions
behind such advice – since these are central in determining the conditions under which the advice is relevant.
But such
assumptions
may have been premature.
Owing to confirmation bias, exposure to concepts that conflict with ingrained beliefs may entrench assumptions, rather than leading us to revise them.
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