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Spooked by Russia’s incursions into Ukraine, North Korea’s erratic intransigence, and China’s new foreign-policy assertiveness, US allies and partners in East Asia and Europe have rushed back to unthinking embrace of Cold War
assumptions
about the deterrent utility of nuclear weapons and their central importance in security policy.
To see the mistake in this criticism, imagine that, on the basis of theory and some assumptions, one recommends new policy X, even though there is no hard evidence regarding whether or not X works.
Data that didn’t support their
assumptions
about global warming were fudged.
The most effective – and thus the most credible – monetary policy is one that reflects not only the lessons of history, but also a willingness to reconsider long-held
assumptions.
Perhaps most importantly, the worst-case
assumptions
for safety planning have been radically revised.
Predictions are largely pointless, given that the
assumptions
underpinning them will invariably change.
Macri’s macroeconomic policy approach – which also included increasing prices for public services that had been frozen by the previous government and implementing a tax amnesty program that provided the government with more fiscal revenues – rested on several controversial
assumptions.
These
assumptions
haven’t been borne out.
Macri’s government should be working to develop a long-term macroeconomic strategy based on credible, not controversial,
assumptions.
Economists who become policy advisors are great fans of simplicity, uniformity, and arm's-length relations between government and the private sector, not because of economic theory or empirical evidence, but because of unexamined and untested
assumptions.
The outcome made it clear that there are now two Europes: one in which the logic of integration is deeply embedded in the political system and the social order; and one that rejects the basic
assumptions
of pooled sovereignty.
Combining these conservative
assumptions
about potential GDP with the effect of the cyclical rebound – an estimated 1.2% annual rise in real GDP – would produce real GDP growth at an average annual rate of 2.6%, which would be significantly higher than the 1.9% rate in the decade ending in 2009.
So, when the education economists provided an analysis on putting children into classes according to ability, the eminent panel would question the
assumptions
and probe the outcomes to see if the finding stood up.
Consolidators versus StimulatorsLONDON – All intellectual systems rely on
assumptions
that do not need to be spelled out because all members of that particular intellectual community accept them.
The first of the implicit
assumptions
of orthodox theory that Keynes identified was Say’s Law, the doctrine that “supply creates its own demand.”
And governments are not alone; the private sector, too, relied on rosy
assumptions
to justify imprudently high levels of leverage.
No war is without its list of false assumptions, and the Kosovo campaign had its share.
Now, however, international acceptance of Iran as a nuclear-threshold state, together with the threat emanating from imploding Arab neighbors, flatly contradicts Netanyahu’s
assumptions
about the conditions that must be fulfilled for Israel to offer “painful concessions” to the Palestinians.
With their
assumptions
invalidated, Western leaders are struggling to craft an effective response.
How America’s Asian Allies Can Survive TrumpWASHINGTON, DC – Judging by US President Donald Trump’s behavior since his election, and by the explicitly isolationist message of his inaugural address, it seems safe to assume that his administration’s foreign policy will upend many long-held
assumptions
about America’s role in the world.
But with a few reasonable assumptions, such as the idea that more is better than less, you can make many predictions about how people will behave.
In the process, they subjected the
assumptions
underlying homo economicus to experimental tests and found them wanting.
The differences arise largely from contrasting
assumptions
about how economies respond to changes in trade volumes sparked by liberalization.
By contrast, the Capaldo framework lacks sectoral and country detail; its behavioral
assumptions
remain opaque; and its extreme Keynesian
assumptions
sit uneasily with its medium-term perspective.
The trouble is that the real world has not lined up so neatly with trade economists’
assumptions.
The
assumptions
needed to do so are not standard and require many arbitrary short cuts.
Sanguine macroeconomic
assumptions
and fanciful theories about the effects of tax cuts underpinned rosy scenarios.
Unrealistic macroeconomic assumptions, farfetched theories about tax cuts, and legislation that deliberately misrepresented policy plans all worked as intended, yielding overly optimistic forecasts, which in turn help to explain excessive budget deficits.
But even if these two
assumptions
prove to be unfounded, the unintended consequences of the new tax law will still threaten Americans’ wellbeing.
To be sure, it was based on unrealistically optimistic
assumptions
about the depth of the recession, the strength of the recovery, and the level at which unemployment would peak.
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