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Their success will require an innovative strategy that upends entrenched
assumptions
about – and approaches to – water-related problems.
In fact, based on Darwin’s assumptions, most anthropologists claim that modern humans were simply descended from Cro-Magnons, who had exterminated their less-fit adversaries.
Of course, demographics is not an exact science: Much depends on
assumptions
about age profiles, standards of living, inequality, and so on, and sooner or later the Muslim fertility rate will converge with the national average.
Europe's new constitution will be accepted as a guarantee of freedom and lawful government only if it results from a broad public dialogue reflecting the common cultural and moral
assumptions
that bind Europeans together.
It is among these
assumptions
that the source of the errors must lie.
But we can already make two reasonable
assumptions.
The new party—barely six months old—has realigned Israeli politics by transforming the entire framework of ideological
assumptions
underpinning the country’s security strategy.
Of course, the ambition today cannot be to recreate that world (or to reestablish an anachronistic Westphalian order of religious separation), but rather to devise a new order predicated on different
assumptions.
But, taken together, the conflicting messages reveal some of the underlying
assumptions
about surgery on intersex children.
They need to take a step back and examine the cultural
assumptions
underpinning their medical opinions.
Intersex people’s bodies challenge fundamental cultural
assumptions
about sex and gender in many societies.
But now that we have ample knowledge about the issue, we can either critically examine and adjust these assumptions, or we can insist that individuals conform to existing cultural norms and social expectations.
But these favorable net benefits reflect very conservative
assumptions
regarding the timing of emissions reductions and when the developing world would “come onboard.”
Take the same country’s current-account deficit and ask how large a real depreciation is needed (making some
assumptions
about trade elasticities along the way) to close that external gap.
NATO expansion risks upsetting the network of understandings,
assumptions
and agreements on which this new security order rests.
Untested – and ultimately incorrect –
assumptions
created a policymaking environment defined by what can only be called hubris.
Their
assumptions
should be ruthlessly exposed, for they have come close to destroying our world.
Not only are these
assumptions
absurd, but so are the conclusions: there is no involuntary unemployment, markets are fully efficient, and redistribution has no real consequence.
Financial engineers and traders shared the same
assumptions
about the risks they were taking.
When these
assumptions
turned out to be false, the entire financial system was exposed to infection.
As a result, basic
assumptions
are being questioned at every turn.
For example, in a summary of the 2004 study, they wrote, “Making conservative
assumptions
we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more, have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.”
“The recent economic and financial upheavals,” he declared, “have thrown a glaring light on the shortcomings of the intellectual tools provided by mainstream economics and its key
assumptions
regarding the sustainability of self-regulating markets,” especially “largely unregulated global financial markets.”
He then proposed a “critical examination of some of the core
assumptions
that underpin economics as it is currently taught in university departments across the world.”
But the realization in 2007 that some of the system’s fundamental
assumptions
were no longer valid triggered a crisis with huge economic and social costs.
By contrast, changes in broadly shared economic
assumptions
are far more likely to trigger a sell-off, by prompting investors to reassess the likelihood of actually realizing projected cash flows.
As emerging-market investors well know, political changes can affect economic
assumptions.
Of course, any estimate of the implicit pension debt requires caveats and arbitrary
assumptions.
Moreover, the Commission has already worked to harmonize the
assumptions
needed to forecast public pension outlays and achieve cross-country comparability.
Finally, to strengthen cross-country comparability further, the benchmark should be variations in the stock of pension debt under given economic and demographic assumptions, rather than the debt level itself.
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