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Containment of Iraq by intervention is the method that now seems most likely.
In the UK, for example, the Treasury decides on the level of economic intervention, while the BoE determines the timing and method of implementation.
Quoting John Maynard Keynes, he pointed out that economics is a method that helps people to think straight and reach the correct answers, with no foreordained policy conclusions.
Reports of Vlad's cruel method - by no means unusual at the time - were already in circulation during his lifetime, and Corvinus probably gave his brutality a particularly bloodthirsty spin.
As former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Frank Newman argued in a recent book, Freedom from National Debt, a country’s capacity for fiscal intervention is better assessed by examining its aggregate balance sheet than by the traditional method of comparing its debt (a liability) to its GDP (a flow).
Reliance on the traditional method has resulted in missed opportunities, particularly given that productive public-sector investment can more than pay for itself.
But the fault lies with the program’s method, which is to rely on the state both to collect the food from farmers and to deliver it to the poor.
For example, alcohol is now considered an inefficient method for cleaning wounds, because it kills infection-fighting white blood cells.
Any decent, rational person hopes for a milder method to achieve progress.
But must the milder method – call it parliamentary or constitutional democracy – break down periodically in disastrous fashion?
But in neither case has a standard method emerged for ensuring the integrity of research – or of the scientists who carry it out.
Another method is to use mirrors, light, or painted colors to change the way the asteroid absorbs heat, which could also shift its direction.
The Security Council normally votes on issues that threaten international peace and security, but this method would allow only a small number of governments to decide Earth’s fate.
(All of the embodied energy is lost if the plastics are landfilled, a common disposal method worldwide.)
After all, the real reason that Keynesian thinking took hold was that its method of calculating aggregate consumption, investment, and savings proved invaluable for American and British military planning during World War II.
He recommends that Japan continue its current method of monetary easing – which can boost demand, while maintaining some safeguard against inflation – and postpone its forthcoming consumption-tax hike.
While this method does indeed increase total revenue, the economic effect of limiting tax expenditures is the same as it is under any other method of cutting spending on those programs.
“Take a method and try it.
Poachers often prove the veracity of their illicit product by showing buyers horns that have been removed from the base of the skull, an extraction method that kills the animal.
This method can reveal selection in action, working over periods of time as short as one generation – so that it can answer the question of whether modern culture has stopped evolution.
It is a longstanding method of conflict frequently defined as deliberate attack on the innocent with the objective of spreading fear.
This view about how society should be managed – social democracy – is not only a political orientation; it is also a method of government.
This is a method of economic reasoning that is calculated to appeal to those at the top of the income pyramid.
This deterministic approach is rooted in an outdated nineteenth-century view of scientific method, and it suffers from two glaring defects.
His research method – a long poem about his theory – is hardly convincing to modern ears.
All other OECD countries treat the profits of their companies’ foreign subsidiaries very differently, relying on the so-called “territorial” method of taxing foreign earnings.
EU governments have wanted a pliable Commission, but now the cost could be the death of the “community method” that protects the EU against national frictions.
Meanwhile, the asylum system – another traditional method of assisting the needy – is coming under strain.
Their method is based on observations, from which they discern patterns and infer other patterns and behaviors; but they can never attain the predictive success of, say, chemistry or physics.
Economists should recognize the limitations of cost-benefit analysis and offer a more rigorous method for analyzing the non-marginal, non-linear feedback mechanisms that affect major investments.
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