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The resulting paradox only serves to prove the film's lesson to be true.
This movie is the epitome of paradox.
One theory that has gained a lot of traction lately is that the so-called productivity paradox does not actually exist.
Perhaps, then, we must look at the other component of the paradox: technological innovation.
But we know one thing: the productivity paradox is real, and it is contributing to rising inequality in many societies.
This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce, so their debt burden rises rather than falls.
In short, the paradox of choice (as elegantly described in an eponymous book by Barry Schwartz) is that too many choices confuse us and raise the possibility of regret; how can we be sure that we are getting just what we want, and that something else would not be better?
It is here that the paradox plaguing Chinese economic policy lies.
The paradox of Akihito’s tour – for which Singh has appointed a special envoy with ministerial rank to oversee preparations – is that Japan is investing substantial political capital to build a strong, long-term partnership with India’s government at a time when India is gripped by policy paralysis.
There is s paradox in all this.
The same paradox applies to energy use, owing to the destructive impact of large-scale carbon emissions.
In that case, however, the Boston bombings appear to present a paradox.
Power in Russia is a product of inertia and personal willfulness, and a generally apathetic public has traditionally surrendered to the country’s paradox of tyranny: a weak state believes that it can function as a strong state by depriving citizens of basic liberties and the ability to make their own decisions.
The paradox here is that as Saudi Arabia becomes far more active diplomatically in trying to sort out the problems and Iraq, it has become paralyzed domestically.
In fact, Thiel seems to be running into the old diamonds-and-water paradox – water is essential, but costs nothing, whereas diamonds are virtually useless, but extremely expensive – albeit in a sophisticated and subtle way.
The paradox exists because, in a market economy, the value of water is set not by the total usefulness of water (infinite) or by the average usefulness of water (very large), but by the marginal value of the last drop of water consumed (very low).
The paradox is that this was no victory for economics.
The result is a dangerous paradox.
So the paradox is that the resignation of the outgoing Commission has had political consequences which are the opposite of those assumed by conventional wisdom.
Indeed, the great paradox of the current era of globalization is that the quest for homogeneity has been accompanied by a longing for ethnic and religious roots.
What explains this apparent paradox is these voters’ very low levels of trust in government’s ability to address inequality.
The Mexican ParadoxCAMBRIDGE – Few economies pose as big a paradox as Mexico’s.
An apparent paradox emerged from the discussion: the boom in popular economics comes at a time when the general public seems to have lost faith in professional economists, because almost all of us failed to predict, or even warn of, the current economic crisis, the biggest since the Great Depression.
Securing the Future at the Evian SummitThe paradox of our time is the great power of the world's richest countries to do good, but their seeming compulsion to miss every opportunity to do so.
There is a grim paradox at work here.
Hence, the paradox that success leads to failure, and failure leads to success.
Thirty-five years ago, in their classic paper, “On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets,” Sanford Grossman and Joseph Stiglitz presented this problem as a paradox: Perfectly efficient markets require the effort of smart money to make them so; but if markets were perfect, smart money would give up trying.
The sad paradox is that while the world had been learning of and celebrating his legendary kindness as a person, he will now be distinguished for all time by an act of aggression.
The paradox is that while anxiety over China’s growing assertiveness has returned the US to the center of Asian geopolitics and enabled it to strengthen its security arrangements in the region, this has not led to action aimed at quelling China’s expansionary policies.
The great paradox is that if the rise of identity politics continues, governments will be even less able to address the problems that are fueling it.
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