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But, in some cases, historical legacies can gain excessive influence, overwhelming leaders’ capacity to make rational policy choices.
People are rational, Friedman said, so they will not work for long if they get nothing or next to nothing for it.
Since they could not make a rational choice, they followed their instincts and voted for the candidate they found most sympathetic.
This could only be rational if the seller can hope to establish a monopoly position and extract large profits in the future.
So here are ten good reasons to believe in Europe – ten rational arguments to convince pessimistic analysts, and worried investors alike, that it is highly premature to bury the euro and the EU altogether.
The French like to acclaim the rational rigour of their thinking, but where budgets are concerned, Descartes is out and obfuscation is in.
This is a completely mundane and rational business decision, aimed at minimizing tax obligations.
If only rational reasoning was the basis of decision-making, the remaining 27 member states would, in line with their interests, move to strengthen the EU by taking immediate steps toward stabilization and enhanced integration.
They point out that it may be rational for many countries to preserve this institutional framework, even if American power resources decline.
While terrorism is rightly viewed as an illegitimate means, nationalism is a rational, and often legitimate, goal, and it is shared by many people who are not terrorists.
Because a firm’s labor costs are someone else’s labor income and demand, what is individually rational for one firm is destructive in the aggregate.
Although Belgium’s euthanasia law now has no specific age requirement – thus differing from Dutch legislation, which permits doctors to provide euthanasia, on request, to minors who are at least 12 years old – it does require the person requesting euthanasia to have a demonstrable capacity for rational decision-making.
For these reasons, Belgium’s extension of its law on euthanasia to minors with a demonstrable capacity for rational decision-making does not deny anyone’s right to life.
On the contrary, any proper understanding of ideologies must reckon with their power to seduce and even genuinely convince people who care little about their emotional appeal – whether to pride or to hate – but who think they actually offer rational policy solutions.
The arguments against maintaining kings and queens are mostly quite rational.
The great unanswered question is how long Putin will be able to rely on nationalist kitsch to overwhelm Russians’ rational calculation of their interests.
When they will stop treating every raving tweet as part of a rational plan?
Underdeveloped democratic institutions allow for decisions that are individually rational but collectively shortsighted and harmful.
Explain yourself: In the aftermath of a default, it may seem that no one is listening to even the most rational of explanations.
In these situations, the System-II decision maker has no tools to resort to in order to escape the sub-optimality (and social nastiness) of the rational decision.
This view is also self-contradictory, for if market participants are perfectly rational and perfectly informed, they would not have been fooled by a policy of making money cheaper than it really was.
If desirable real estate is in scarce supply, credit creation and allocation can at times be driven not by rational analysis of alternative investment projects, but by self-reinforcing cycles in which more credit drives asset prices higher, which then sustains expectations of further rises, leading to more borrowing demand and credit supply.
We have no obligation to allow every being with the potential to become a rational being to realize that potential.
If it comes to a clash between the supposed interests of potentially rational but not yet even conscious beings and the vital interests of actually rational women, we should give preference to the women every time.
But as soon as we accept the premise that to be rational is to seek to maximize one’s utility – defined in terms of consumption, with money the way to maximize it – the economist’s logic wins.
The text of the letter that was left behind is eminently rational.
The process by which southern Europe became uncompetitive in the first place was driven by market price signals – by the incentives those signals created for entrepreneurs, and by how entrepreneurs’ individually rational responses played out in macroeconomic terms.
The range of opposing interpretations of religious texts is virtually unlimited, and disputes are seldom resolved by rational argument.
I find this to be a rational strategy, given the heavy toll that infections take, and that many can be prevented and treated at a relatively modest cost.
Davos was also about faith in rational economic behavior.
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