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It would be a fatal error to believe that since we spend money on armed forces to this end, national defense is solely a military affair to which the rest of the population need not pay attention.
Along with a relatively minor spreadsheet error, they identified some methodological choices in the original Reinhart/Rogoff work that threw the robustness of their results into question.
With simpler structures made up of small numbers of atoms, chemistry could provide considerable guidance as to the atomic arrangements, and a solution could thus often be found by trial and error.
That’s the thinking behind one of my favorite customer-care proposals: that lost luggage should get its own air miles – thus making the customer feel that the airline acknowledges the error and is suffering along with the customer.
So any negative impact on the euro from rapid accession to EMU would at worst amount to little more than a rounding error.
Venter and his team created their organism through a process of trial and error.
Despite this error, the IPCC has long been a fairly reliable source of sensible and responsible estimates in an otherwise histrionic debate.
So the debunking of methodological flaws and a coding error in a paper by the economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff is just part of everyday life in academia.
Rather than criticizing austerity as a well-meant policy error, he condemns it as an assault on Greece, a neo-colonial imposition, or a hostile ideological project gone wrong.
Speaking from personal experience, I have to say that they can, because even I, a professional economist, have occasionally had to stop myself from making exactly the same error.
There are too many risks – human error, technical flaws, negligence, cyber attacks, and more – to believe that these weapons will never be used.
A better argument for curbing bank size is the excessive influence of big banks on policy.What policymakers should therefore be looking for is regulation that makes the financial system less sensitive to error in markets’ estimation of risk, not more so.
The first is to observe that this error is correlated with the boom-bust cycle.
There are many reasons why the market fails to correct systemic error, including that booms are always founded on a belief by both regulators and bankers that “this time it is different.”
Obama committed a fateful error when, for domestic political reasons, he decided to ask the US Congress to agree to a limited punitive military strike.
America’s failure to take advantage of this opportunity, Clemons continued, would be its “biggest strategic error since the Iraq invasion.”
Aging rails, tired coaches, old-fashioned signals, and level crossings dating back to the nineteenth century combine with human error to take dozens of lives every year.
Perhaps the most well-known recent example has been the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman’s campaign against the economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, in which he moved quickly from criticism of an error in one of their papers to charges about their commitment to academic transparency.
In their monumental research on centuries of public and sovereign debt, the normally very careful Reinhart and Rogoff made an error in one of their working papers.
The error is in neither their prize-winning 2009 book nor in a subsequent widely read paper responding to the academic debate about their work.
That would be a grave strategic error, based on a fundamental misreading of Asian security dynamics.
To be clear: failing to work towards peace in Syria is just as grave an error as turning away those fleeing from persecution.
But gutting or cutting Doing Business would be a grave error and would essentially result in throwing a healthy baby out with the bathwater.
Ferguson now admits that he was wrong – that “confidence fell somewhat in the first two years under Prime Minister David Cameron” – but urges in mitigation that a “single factual error” does not invalidate “an entire argument.”
In fact, Ferguson’s entire case rests on this single factual error.
The gap between the Yes and No sides remains within the margin of error and could easily reverse itself, as it did in the weeks leading up to the June referendum.
The British error is to assume that one goal, a common market for Europe, can be had without the other, greater political integration, over the long term.
So, in the case of shale-oil production, the industry appears to have enjoyed significant improvements to operational efficiency through old-fashioned trial and error, or “learning by doing.”
The second classic negotiating error is to focus exclusively on your own interests.
Yet America's currency strategy is the most reckless--another mighty error in an economic policy so wayward that it is hard to know where to begin listing the mistakes.
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