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The
conventional
wisdom is that burning wood only releases the carbon sucked up while the tree was growing, and hence the net climate effect is zero.
Fifty years ago, the rest of the world might have carried on with remedying the problem of
conventional
and greenhouse gas emissions and let China and the US stew in their own waste.
Another initiative worth watching is the Hong Kong stock exchange’s exploratory project to offer a trading platform for emissions derivatives, which will most likely include
conventional
pollutants as well as carbon.
In both fields, the
conventional
approach has been reductionist, with problems modeled at the level of their most basic components.
Obama’s administration will instead continue to enhance the roles and capabilities of US
conventional
forces to perform missions previously assigned to nuclear weapons.
Now, equity prices are reaching relatively high levels by
conventional
measures – and investors are starting to get nervous.
This is the strategy pursued by countries such as Turkey and South Africa, which have adopted more
conventional
“inflation targeting” regimes.
Once upon a time,
conventional
wisdom maintained that curbing governments’ appetite for debt would put an end to over-borrowing, because private agents would know to act prudently and weigh the costs and benefits of one more dollar of debt.
Conventional
wisdom also once held that dollar borrowing binges occur only in countries with fixed exchange rates, with the central bank de facto insuring borrowers against currency risk.
Some charge the Obama administration itself with sending mixed signals or worse: The US, they note, has modernized its own nuclear arsenal, developed new ballistic-missile defense and
conventional
weapons systems, and been too willing to accommodate its European and Northeast Asian allies’ nervousness about limiting the nuclear dimension of the extended deterrence umbrella under which they shelter.
In addition to exposing the flaws in
conventional
economic policies, the crisis and its aftermath accelerated the global rebalancing from the Atlantic to the Asia-Pacific region, while fueling political discontent and the rise of anti-establishment movements in the West.
According to the
conventional
narrative, policymakers at the time, having vowed never to repeat the errors that led to the crisis, devised new measures to overcome their economies’ prolonged malaise.
Nowadays, many economists complain that the financial crisis did not prompt a serious rethinking of
conventional
economics.
And, because water scarcity is among the top challenges facing the industry, eco-friendly solutions are often more viable than
conventional
ones.
A strange
conventional
wisdom developed in the inflationary 1970s and 1980s: that strong economic growth and falling unemployment was bad for share prices.
For starters, as Yuen Yuen Ang of the University of Michigan reminds us in her excellent book How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty without adhering to the
conventional
Western approach to development.
Putin has been unable to counter America’s development of “prompt global strike,” which would render Russia’s nuclear deterrent irrelevant, by enabling the United States to hit targets worldwide with
conventional
weapons within an hour.
According to
conventional
theory, markets tend towards equilibrium, function without any discontinuity in the sequence of prices, and deviations occur in a random fashion.
Moreover, neuroeconomists like him conduct research that is well beyond their
conventional
colleagues’ intellectual comfort zone, for they seek to advance some of the core concepts of economics by linking them to specific brain structures.
Conventional
policy advice urges innovative monetary interventions bearing an ever expanding array of acronyms, even as governments are admonished to spend on “obvious” needs such as infrastructure.
The current small difference between the real interest rate on such bonds (2.1% for 30-year bonds) and the nominal interest rate on
conventional
30-year Treasury bonds (now 4.6%) implies that the market expects only about 2.5% inflation over the next three decades.
This new, drought-resistant variety requires only one-eighth as much irrigation as
conventional
wheat; in some deserts, it can be cultivated with rainfall alone.
The EU will need a great deal more integration, perhaps until it becomes a centralised mega-state, before it is likely to operate a grand foreign policy and military strategy in the
conventional
American sense.
After US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, it did not take long for advanced-country central banks to recognize that
conventional
monetary policy would be inadequate to contain the fallout of the ensuing crisis.
Of course, the Fed is not the only central bank that has been redefining
conventional
monetary policy.
Where the Water IsHAMILTON, CANADA – In many parts of the world, there are simply no more
conventional
freshwater resources available to meet growing demand.
Recent studies show that, though the cost of irrigation with desalinated water remains higher than with
conventional
fresh water, it is declining.
Implementing today’s
conventional
un-wisdom promises only a deeper recession and the postponement of the inevitable day of reckoning.
Mental Health for AllMELBOURNE – One spring evening in 1997, when I was a mental-health researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra, I was discussing with my wife, Betty Kitchener, a registered nurse who taught first-aid courses for the Red Cross in her spare time, the inadequacy of
conventional
first-aid training.
In the longer term, countries should aim to match participation rates in
conventional
first-aid courses.
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