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Fourth, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of fiscal discipline to longer-term growth.
It is hard to overestimate the impact that the automobile has had on our political, economic, social, and cultural life over the past century.
So looking only at the cost of a meal or of a day in the hospital causes an overestimate in the price index and an underestimate of the rise in the real standard of living.
At the same time, it would be as dangerous to overestimate the Islamic State’s capabilities today as it was to underestimate them yesterday.
Russia could play a constructive role in this revision, if it does not overestimate its strength.
And it is easy to overestimate the crisis-preventing power of the new regulatory environment, which is analogous to a new highway: It is technically safer than a country road, but it also attracts more cars that are traveling at much higher speeds, so traffic accidents continue.
If they are reminded of the attacks in Paris and Nice, they will overestimate the probability of terror.
It is hard to overestimate the adverse consequences of this state of affairs.
Back then, the Soviet Union’s vast natural resources, industrial and military expansion, and state-controlled economy caused many economists to overestimate its leaders’ ability to manage risks.
It would be hard to overestimate the importance of such a declaration.
Even superstar managers or political leaders risk disaster if they overestimate their power and outstay their welcome.
In this sense, it is difficult to overestimate the significance of the coming elections, because they will largely determine the future of the Russian state.
All of these forces overestimate their capacity to dilute or circumvent existing economic integration, which has been strengthened in recent decades by the rapid development of cross-border value chains.
But such expectations significantly overestimate the benefits of Brexit for the rest of the EU, while vastly underestimating the risks.
The Korean study paid no attention to the bias that haunts all epidemiological studies, which always overestimate pathology rates by including as disorder even very mild presentations that do not have clinical significance.
Bad Financial Moon RisingBASEL – No one should overestimate economists’ powers of understanding.
The government must not overestimate how much revenue can be gained by the consumption-tax increase, and thus how much of the budget hole can be closed.
If you win the lottery – and if the big prize that you receive is there to induce others to overestimate their chances and purchase lottery tickets and so enrich the lottery operator – do you “deserve” your winnings?
Despite rising resistance to technology transfer, however, the Chinese authorities remain reluctant to abandon their policy, probably for much the same reason the US is angry: they overestimate its impact.
According to behavioral economics, human beings are biased toward the status quo: we overestimate the potential losses of a deviation from our baseline, and underestimate the potential benefits.
Moreover, workers may get caught up in what psychologists call the “illusion of control” – our tendency to overestimate our ability to shape events without external support.
It is hard to overestimate the significance of the dilemma between solving looming problems and avoiding moral hazard.
But the financial interests involved tend to distort the process by creating incentives to overestimate the benefits of new drugs, underestimate the risks, and, above all, boost prescriptions.
This is an alarming prospect, because if there is one lesson from the 1990's, it is that nobody should overestimate the stability of international financial flows.
But, almost from the beginning – and most intensely since 1971, when Time magazine published a special section entitled “The New Genetics: Man into Superman” – science and society alike have tended to overestimate the impact of genetics.
But we must never overestimate the ability of new governments to solve old problems – or underestimate the ingenuity and brutality of the old regimes.
Thus, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of regional issues – particularly inter-regional disparities – for China’s politics.
But it would be dangerous to overestimate the implications of Khan’s election.
The Europeans also must persuade the Iranians not to overestimate their own power.
Yet, even if few of us would claim to know exactly how a nuclear reactor functions, or how GM food is produced, we still tend to overestimate our understanding and thus downplay the knowledge gap between us and the scientists.
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