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The political game has been transformed from the
conventional
winner-take-all model to a new power-balancing model, in which multiple winners may emerge.
But is this
conventional
wisdom always right?
Institutional reform is a delicate affair that needs to be done with caution and sometimes against the
conventional
reform dogma.
In some cases, nature-based solutions are at least as cost-effective as
conventional
built infrastructure, not least because they can often address multiple challenges at once.
At that point, global policymakers got religion and started to use most of the weapons in their arsenal: vast fiscal-policy easing;
conventional
and unconventional monetary expansion; trillions of dollars in liquidity support, recapitalization, guarantees, and insurance to stem the liquidity and credit crunch; and, finally, massive support to emerging-market economies.
Unlike, say, acid rain or smog, it is not “a
conventional
environmental ‘problem.’”
Why?Contrary to much
conventional
wisdom, populism is not defined by a particular electoral constituency – such as the lower middle class – or by simplistic policies pandering to the masses, as liberal observers often argue.
Given the number and severity of problems currently plaguing civil aeronautics, the
conventional
approach of evolutionary changes to current paradigms is no longer sufficient.
Others are highly critical of Al Qaeda, and are attempting to form
conventional
political parties in Egypt.
A fundamental reason that organic food production is far less “sustainable” than many forms of
conventional
farming is that organic farms, though possibly well adapted for certain local environments on a small scale, produce far less food per unit of land and water.
The low yields of organic agriculture – typically 20-50% below
conventional
agriculture – impose various stresses on farmland, especially on water consumption.
In recent decades,
conventional
agriculture has become more environmentally friendly and sustainable than ever before.
Conventional
theory suggests that a single country (or group of countries) consolidating its finances can expect lower interest rates, a weaker currency, and an improved trade position.
Unlike
conventional
antidepressants – which are used to elevate concentrations of the neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine, or noradrenaline – ketamine influences the glutamate system.
While genetic modification is not essential to feed the world, it does provide significant advantages, enabling scientists to introduce or enhance traits – virus resistance in cassava, for example, or improved digestibility of feed – that cannot be realized with
conventional
breeding.
The trouble with currency undervaluation is that, unlike
conventional
industrial policy, it spills over into the trade balance.
Production of the materials used to capture and store solar electricity, for example, can cause just as much environmental damage as
conventional
fuels, and existing wind and solar technology cannot easily meet the needs of large populations.
It is now
conventional
wisdom that nuclear deterrence worked; and, in a sense, it did.
The authority of
conventional
politicians and traditional media is slipping away fast.
Today’s
conventional
wisdom links the emergence of populist movements around the world, including the election of President Donald Trump in the US, to the people who have missed out on the benefits of globalization.
Unlike
conventional
indicators, which capture inequality in outcomes like education and employment, the OECD’s Social Institutions Gender Index (SIGI) evaluates the underlying drivers of such outcomes, comparing factors such as preferential treatment of sons over daughters, violence against women, and restrictions on property rights.
After Black Wednesday, it became
conventional
wisdom that it was simply impossible to fix both the exchange rate and domestic monetary conditions at the same time.
Moreover, Séralini’s results contradict the latest meta-study of 24 long-term studies (up to two years and five generations), which found that the data do “not suggest any health hazards” and display “no statistically significant differences” between GM and
conventional
food.
The text introduced by the European Liberal Democrats, with the support of virtually all political groups in the European Parliament, is revolutionary, not only because it goes against
conventional
thinking, but also because it raises the issue above the stagnant reality of the “war on drugs.”
Enter John Snow, a pioneering physician who had intuited that cholera was spread not through the air, as
conventional
wisdom held, but through water.
South Africa eventually won its case, but the government learned its lesson: it did not try again to put its citizens’ health and wellbeing into its own hands by challenging the
conventional
global intellectual property (IP) regime.
Throughout the late twentieth century, the
conventional
wisdom was that this market failure could best be rectified by introducing another one: private monopolies, created through stringent patents strictly enforced.
Conventional
wisdom has changed, and many people will be breathing a sigh of relief when inflation rates rise above 3% or more in the US and elsewhere.
For example, two decades ago, the
conventional
wisdom was that the US was in decline.
A decade later, with the Cold War’s end, the new
conventional
wisdom was that the world was a unipolar American hegemony.
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