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The remarkable speed with which anti-immigration positions buckled indicates that what most Americans want, above all, is a rational approach; they want their political leaders to take responsibility for the issue, rather than running away from it.
Many pivotal stakeholders also are advocating for a more rational immigration system.
Russian leaders’ high ratings do not, however, indicate a rational preference for the incumbents over potential contenders; with political competition in Russia eviscerated, comparison and choice are not part of the political left.
The European house is ablaze, and Downing Street is calling for a rational and resolute response by the fire brigade.
Judging by my years spent studying the international migration of highly skilled workers, not to mention living as an immigrant, a rational and balanced debate on immigration must begin with the perspective of immigrants themselves.
In other words, it is perfectly rational to pursue a “keep buying because the price will keep rising” strategy – until it is not.
It is not rational to impose such punishment when the consequences, far from preventing future crimes, may incite or cause greater or new social damage.
Perhaps the reason was ideology: we were too wedded to the idea that markets are efficient, market participants are rational, and high prices are justified by economic fundamentals.
Hobbled by the self-inflicted wounds of the debt-ceiling debacle in the summer of 2011 – which undermined economic growth and job creation, and further damaged Americans’ confidence in their political system – the US Congress and President Barack Obama’s administration recognized the need for a measured and rational approach to fiscal reform.
Many consequences follow from such home truths about immigration, not least a more rational debate.
They scour the planet looking for places to put their money, and they expect companies that receive it to play by rational rules.
And they must develop a rational migration policy.
AXA’s decision is a rational one based on indisputable facts and a realistic view of the future.
It is now up to rational political leaders and mass media to reintroduce facts into the debate.
Any decent, rational person hopes for a milder method to achieve progress.
Much of modern economic and financial theory is based on the assumption that people are rational, and thus that they systematically maximize their own happiness, or as economists call it, their “utility.”
The rational for affirmative action in those early years was the fact that, after a long history of systemic injustice, merely outlawing discrimination based on race or gender would not ensure equal opportunity for all.
The concept of homo economicus, which asserts that humans are rational actors who make decisions based on narrow self-interest, has dominated political and economic thinking since the 1970’s.
First, in the past, short-term macroeconomic stability was often achieved at the expense of structural adjustment and rational allocation of resources.
America’s Democrats continue to argue for complete withdrawal of United States forces from Iraq within 18 months, despite the fact that no rational observer believes that Iraqi forces will by then be able to secure Iraq’s borders and face down the country’s numerous militias, which remain armed to the teeth.
The only rational course of action would seem to be to curtail global consumption of fossil fuels, as the Kyoto Treaty's proponents contend, and invest in alternative energy sources.
So the only rational response is to research aggressively into the many unknown factors: the physics of cloud formation, the dynamic coupling of the upper stratosphere to the lower atmosphere, the accumulation of atmospheric water vapor.
This cohort views economics as the study of models, in which agents’ expectations can be assumed to be rational and consistent with the model.
From this perspective, inflation expectations can be assumed to be either ideal predictions of the future, or at the very least rational ones, with their accuracy and precision undermined only by limitations in information received by economic actors.
With more rational public policy, we can meet that need now.
Indeed, one need look no further than the Greek vote itself to find an example of raw emotions and outrage winning out over a rational calculation of economic costs and benefits.
If the world, and especially the American people, believe that removing Assad’s chemical weapons will end his government’s slaughter of innocent men, women, and children, then all semblance of rational thought, humanitarian care, and regard for national interest has been thrown to the wind.
This is highly inefficient, because while it is individually rational for depositors to want their money immediately, the bank might have been able to service all of them had they been collectively patient.
But stock price movements haven’t always been as rational as they were in 1916.
While this is rational for investors, it does not support policymakers’ interest in sustained growth.
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