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There can be a fine line between experts’ prerogative to make technical judgments and non-experts’ prerogative to assess the
consequences
of those judgments.
But between these positions lies a vast range of unintended
consequences.
When people translate knowledge into action, they initiate new interactions within complex systems, without necessarily knowing what the final
consequences
of those actions will be.
Nobody yet knows what the political
consequences
of these economic changes will be.
Of course, a deflationary spiral is possible, and its
consequences
could be serious.
Indeed, while the devastating
consequences
of the Soviet Union’s Afghan adventure are now well known, at the time the invasion was viewed as a major defeat for the West.
Over the past 25 years, bond-market vigilantes have argued that all-seeing, forward-looking financial markets will always anticipate the future
consequences
of populist policies and impose risk premia.
The genie is out of the bottle, and people know that they have the power to topple governments, and, more generally, that their political activism has
consequences.
The outcome will have profound
consequences
for US economic policy, and thus for the global economy.
Unfortunately, a US debt default, even a technical one, would have unforeseeable
consequences
that could threaten the recovery.
America's legal system makes sure that firms that produce a defective, and particularly an unsafe product, are held liable for the
consequences.
Just the health
consequences
of coal production and combustion are staggering.
Sandel is worried less about the possible
consequences
of enhancement technologies than about the sensibility they reflect - a sensibility that sees the world as something to be manipulated and controlled.
The past can serve as a guide to the
consequences
of the warming that we are causing.
Most encouraging of all, a major new international movement is gathering pace to focus policy attention on the horrific humanitarian
consequences
of any use of nuclear weapons, and to create the conditions for a treaty to ban them once and for all.
Achieving lasting change, however, requires addressing not just the
consequences
of extremism but also its root causes.
Such deep theoretical conflicts have real-world consequences, as they impede constructive debate and cooperative action in crisis situations.
The major flaws in Obamacare are not, as has been argued, unintended
consequences
of a poorly designed policy, which thus must be replaced; instead, they stem from Republican demands.
But if they don’t, the
consequences
could be dire.
And, since governments typically try to enforce the conventional wisdom, the
consequences
could be disastrous, because they are magnified by the state’s coordinating – and coercive – power.
No doubt we will discover some unintended
consequences
in the future, and the power of government coordination will ensure that those
consequences
are widespread.
Would it not be far better to force conscious choice in order to limit the
consequences
of paternalistic mistakes?
Whatever one thinks of the G20 – and it is by no means perfect – this more inclusive grouping helped to overcome the
consequences
of the 2008 global financial crisis.
A military strike would likely have worse
consequences.
One of the few positive
consequences
of the 2008 financial crisis was the elevation of the G-20's global role; in principle, it is a far more representative forum for international leadership than the G-7 ever was.
The status quo will argue that Enron is an exception: that its demise was due to fraud, that we have laws against fraud, and that those who violate these laws should and will bear the
consequences.
Repeatedly, we have seen the
consequences
of the excesses of deregulation, of unfettered markets.
Moreover, the process by which a law is developed has
consequences
for the effectiveness of legal institutions.
A new American president would do well to remember the disastrous
consequences
of protectionism in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
But even if the underlying fears and prejudices about Muslim and Jewish conspiracies are similar, the
consequences
are likely to be quite different.
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