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The latter is wholly
conventional
and subject to regulation (and recently to questions about how corporations should behave when there are no host-country regulations).
With a willingness to challenge assumptions and change
conventional
perceptions, we can change the world for the better.
Conventional
prenatal diagnosis entails removing fetal cells, either from the amniotic fluid (amniocentesis) or from the placenta (chorionic villus sampling, CVS).
They could well prefer this option to natural conception and the prospect of therapeutic abortion following a
conventional
prenatal genetic diagnosis.
But new medical technologies also offer applications that fall outside of these
conventional
precepts.
The
conventional
prescription includes improving education (especially the technical kind), modernizing labor markets, reducing bureaucratic red tape, and facilitating foreign investment and technology transfer.
Even the part that is not government-financed is not a
conventional
market; most individuals’ purchases of prescription medicines are covered by insurance.
When considering today’s concern about Japan’s high public debt-to-GDP ratio, now at 202% on a gross basis, one needs to reflect that the ratio would most likely be profoundly lower if Japan had in the past financed more of its deficit spending with trills instead of
conventional
debt, and issued them to investors around the world.
So, given the new
conventional
wisdom in leadership studies that entering the information age means entering a woman’s world, why are women not doing better?
The surprise was not only that there were so many cases, but that the vast majority seemed unrelated to
conventional
economic reforms, such as liberalization of trade and prices.
Tackling Terrorism: The events of September 11 th , 2001 clearly invalidated the
conventional
wisdom that terrorists want a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead.
Islamic finance has important advantages over
conventional
financial products.
To realize this potential, Islamic finance, no less than its
conventional
counterpart, needs an appropriate enabling environment, one characterized by a level playing field, an adequate regulatory framework, and effective partnerships.
Despite the hype about the shale-gas revolution, the extraction cost of (onshore)
conventional
gas remains below that of shale gas.
Moreover, an existing pipeline network implies that this
conventional
gas can be brought to Europe at a low marginal cost.
From an economic (and environmental) standpoint, fracking is thus unlikely to bring large benefits for Europe: shale gas might simply substitute for plentiful
conventional
gas.
Threatening the Syrian regime with “terrible consequences” if it were to use chemical weapons means only one thing: “Bomb your civilians at will, but use only
conventional
munitions.”
It needs such weapons to compensate psychologically for NATO’s preponderance – a reversal of the Cold War epoch – in
conventional
forces.
More importantly, Russia considers these weapons insurance against the possibility of Chinese
conventional
superiority.
The existence of nuclear weapons also curbed the
conventional
arms race.
Moreover, too many policymakers have relied on the belief that, at the end of the day, this is just a deep recession that can be subdued by a generous helping of
conventional
policy tools, whether fiscal policy or massive bailouts.
In a
conventional
recession, the resumption of growth implies a reasonably brisk return to normalcy.
So far, across a broad range of macroeconomic variables, including output, employment, debt, housing prices, and even equity, our quantitative benchmarks based on previous deep post-war financial crises have proved far more accurate than
conventional
recession logic.
Does the dramatic fall in China’s surplus call that
conventional
wisdom into question?
Indeed,
conventional
wisdom holds that, during a depression, citizens become risk-averse and will not support liberalization.
That means persuading Britain to change its mind about Europe, which, according to
conventional
wisdom on both sides of the English Channel, is impossible.
Intolerably high profits in unmanageably complex financial markets that failed to deliver the goods – investment, economic diversification, employment, and social stability – capsized yesterday’s
conventional
economic wisdom.
The best way to maintain NATO’s credibility and be taken seriously by the US is to work seriously toward the alliance’s 2%-of-GDP target for defense spending and to invest more heavily in
conventional
military capabilities, not to satisfy US demands, but to protect our own security and defense interests.
This is particularly true for Iran, which is incapable of projecting
conventional
military power beyond its borders.
In fact, Iran’s nuclear program was intended to compensate for its
conventional
military weakness in a neighborhood where it has more enemies than friends.
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