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Any rational person would soon realize that it is better just to stick with the status quo.
It is still difficult to think the unthinkable, let alone work out the details of it, but any rational player must now consider the possibility.
That decision was both understandable and rational.
Can Iran under Ahmadinejad be considered a rational actor?
That is why, despite the damage that his reputation suffered in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Greenspan retains enormous credibility among all those who hope to see rational economic policy in America.
In other words, it is rational to save more now.
From a rational perspective, this idolizing of Diana is as absurd as any cult.
Their links with Europe – if they exist at all – are at best rational, not emotional.
And because the demand curve for life-saving medications is almost perfectly inelastic, raising the price by more than 5,000% is a rational way to maximize profits.
The sociologist Max Weber described three bases of authority: traditional, charismatic, and rational (legal).
Those who used to say that they favored a debate on the issue now support legalization; those who opposed it now accept the need for debate; and those who continue to oppose legalization do so on moral, rather than rational, grounds.
In her long, distinguished career, Rivlin and others like her have provided us with a rational policymaking process – if we can keep it.
First, when reforming their own domestic regulatory frameworks, they should avoid dramatic swings away from allegedly rational markets to allegedly rational governments.
That hardly seems a rational policy for a continent in profound transition.
The emergence of the clean-energy sector reflects rational policies – from research to financing to tariff incentives – in the world’s largest economies.
And, unlike past protests, which have usually been allied with students or members of the intelligentsia, popular disaffection might not have the virtue of rational leaders with whom the government could talk and negotiate.
As Stephen Kotkin shows in his new biography of Stalin, Soviet policy was strictly rational.
It seems to have a behavioral-economics component, since the “this time is different syndrome” seems psychological rather than rational.
Ideally, deliberations and votes result in rational decisions that use the current state of knowledge to deliver policies that advance citizens’ wellbeing.
A few decades ago, it was widely assumed that progress in mass education would gradually bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and popular belief, thereby contributing to a more serene and more rational democracy.
Instead, Turnbull has subordinated whatever rational and civilized instincts he was thought to retain to the demands of the small-minded extreme conservatives in his party.
I believe, however, that there is another explanation for these phenomena, which is based on rational calculation and information processing by institutions and traders.
The problems we see in the financial markets have very much to do with lack of good information, misaligned incentives, and, in fact, rational responses to the environment.
Trading on the momentum of price movements may then become a rational activity that becomes self-fulfilling, as investors decide to “ride the bubble” while it lasts.
May seems to be assuming that the Commonwealth of Nations and other multilateral economic bodies can substitute for the EU, and that Trump, like British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, will end up being a rational statesman who simply cannot control his words.
The fact that a catastrophe is unlikely to occur is not a rational justification for ignoring the risk of its occurrence.
Economists typically describe people’s rational, honest side, but ignore their duplicity.
Slowing the rate of alteration is the only rational course of action, given the potential outcomes.
Erich Fromm, the late German psychologist and philosopher, once said that “history is a graveyard of cultures that came to their catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned and rational voluntary reaction to challenges.”
A referendum is not usually an accurate sounding of people’s rational faculties or a test of their expertise.
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