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They are spoon-fed
models
of the economy, based on unreal assumptions, and tested on their competence in solving mathematical equations.
In fact, the field repels all but connoisseurs of fanciful formal
models.
One can understand why economists trained in this way were seduced by financial
models
that implied that banks had virtually eliminated risk.
And Denmark and Germany both provide good
models
for ensuring a smoother transition from education to employment.
There are plenty of
models
to follow: Dubai, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Mexico, Indonesia, and South Korea are all admired by Africans as economies that managed to transform themselves.
The EU’s newcomers have adopted growth
models
that rely to varying degrees on foreign capital to finance domestic investment, and on banking systems that are largely owned by west European banks.
Trade with countries that have very different economic, social, and political
models
raises genuine concerns about legitimacy.
That means building more comprehensive and integrated business models, informed by experienced talent with expertise in a broader array of areas, in order to move beyond these companies’ laser focus on innovation.
To succeed, companies should work to reach consumers’ price points through a combination of product reengineering (such as removing low-value-added features), smaller package sizes, and low-cost operating
models.
But, though this argument is valid in principle, economic
models
show that this risk has only a moderate effect on the best policy.
Taking into account such poor policies and averaging all macroeconomic models, the EU is more likely to pay around $280 billion per year to avert $10 billion in damage.
But it gets worse, because these
models
still assume that the EU picks the cheapest renewables to fulfill its requirements.
Australia and other countries provide
models
of how to do it: regulate and limit gun ownership to approved uses.
Knowing that you cannot ask people to choose between buying food and buying data, the partnership will seek new, less expensive means of connecting computers, more data-efficient software, and new business
models.
But European leaders have yet to recognize that old bank business
models
are obsolete, and that reliance on private-sector leverage for balance-sheet repair of both sovereigns and banks is doomed to failure.
Understanding the obsolescence of most European banks’ business
models
is absolutely crucial to sorting that out.
What is needed is a controlled deleveraging that recognizes that banks’ balance sheets have become too large to support, and that business
models
dependent on massive leverage are obsolete.
With incomplete
models
of risk dynamics and a complex and constantly changing global financial system, detection is, they argue, either impossible or so prone to error that the effort would be counter-productive.
The culprit of this storyline is the Club of Rome, a global think-tank that, in the 1970s, spurred energy anxiety with its absurd prophecies derived from questionable
models.
If things get too complicated for regulators, the job can always be turned over to the private sector, by relying on rating agencies and financial firms’ own risk
models.
Many are now radically changing their business
models
to reduce risk.
The new development and distribution
models
promoted by the Open Education movement represent a natural and inevitable evolution of the educational publishing industry.
This matters, because if the
models
overshoot for recent decades, the century-long forecasts are open to doubt.
Compared to the actual temperature rise since 1980, the average of 32 top climate
models
(the so-called CMIP5) overestimates it by 71-159% (see graph).
A new Nature Climate Change study shows that the prevailing climate
models
produced estimates that overshot the temperature rise over the last 15 years by more than 300%.
Reforming Macho PoliticsLatin America’s democracies range from those that are
models
for the world – Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay – to those like Guatemala, Haiti, and Venezuela that are so weak that calling them democracies is dubious.
Governments should also reinforce the supply of skills by strengthening incentives for educational institutions to harness the power of digital technology and new business
models.
The Fed’s economic manuals, including technical
models
and historical analyses, shed insufficient light on today’s economic situation.
Nepal’s vibrant FM radio stations – once
models
for decentralized public-service broadcasting and community radio – have been prohibited from broadcasting current affairs.
Standard & Poor argued that such a mechanism would provide credit rating agencies with “less incentive to compete with one another, pursue innovation, and improve their models, criteria, and methodologies.”
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