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Unless some rational compromise is agreed, insistence on that approach will lead only to massive and even more costly defaults.
The molecular revolution heralded an era in which drug discovery and development would be rational, not random.
This may have seemed like a reasonable strategy, but fear is not rational; it may well drive voters toward the apparent certainties offered by the nation-state.
Contrary to the expectations of transparency advocates, greater disclosure of government information does not make public discourse more rational and less paranoid.
Who can honestly say that public debate has become more rational and less paranoid when our governments have become more transparent?
People are particularly likely to exercise their right to ignorance – rational or not – when it comes to issues of science and technology.
Some of these concerns may contain a rational core.
After a succession of bursting multi-trillion-dollar credit bubbles, you might wonder what to make of Robert Lucas’s view that rational expectations enable perfectly calculating “agents” to maximize economic utility.
And, while that would jeopardize Germany’s own interests, practical political action is not always rational, particularly in times of serious crisis.
European unemployment had just taken another large upward leap, and the “socialist” countries were so incompatible with rational economic development that their political systems would collapse within two years.
Today, the smart money in financial markets takes a long-term view that asset prices are for the most part rational expectations of discounted future fundamental values.
It would be nice if our financial markets were more rational than those of previous generations.
Only rational behavior by the West has any chance of eliciting a rational response from Iran.
To believers in rational economic choice, of course, there is no waste.
This is the most sensible and rational path to follow.
What mainstream economists mean by rational behavior is not what you or I mean.
In ordinary language, rational behavior is that which is reasonable under the circumstances.
That is, to act rationally is to act in a manner consistent with economists’ models of rational behavior.
As the British vote in June to exit the European Union starkly demonstrated, citizens of democratic countries are more than capable of making choices that contradict their own rational self-interest – a trend that has lately been picking up steam.
A century ago, the sociologist Max Weber classified the three types of legitimacy that can ground governmental authority: traditional (an inherited system); charismatic (a particular leader’s force of personality); or legal (a set of rational rules, applied fairly).
Law is supposed to be impartial and rational; that is its core strength.
The growing appeal of irrationality should be a wake-up call to rational leaders everywhere.
Assuming that Kim is rational, he must have had good reason to believe that the Chinese lifeline would be sustained, even if he executed China’s favorite North Korean interlocutor.
Game theory suggests that rational actors, recognizing how damaging a trade war would be for them, would see the merit of abandoning a retaliatory strategy, and instead accede to many US demands.
The founder of the rational expectations revolution, Robert Lucas, is endlessly quoted as having stated in 2003 in his presidential address to the American Economic Association that the “central problem of depression-prevention has been solved, for all practical purposes, and has in fact been solved for many decades.”
Post-modernism moves away from the rational culture of the so-called “modern era.”
These developments undermine people’s capacity to engage in informed, rational discussions, let alone debates, with those who have different perspectives, values, or economic interests.
She noted with gravity today’s migrations from poor to prosperous countries, the globalization of evil, the contradictions and conflicts of modernity, the angry terrorist response to it, and the contrast between a rational, pragmatic West and a more idealistic and superstitious East, prone to religious fanaticism and political extremism.
But only if water is shared in a rational manner that respects the region’s fragile ecology will human life be sustainable.
Finding rational ways to share and co-manage water may be easier than solving the “big” issues.
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