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The latest victim in the Putin regime’s quest for simplicity is science.
The oppressive atmosphere of gray, government-imposed simplicity has finally insinuated itself into every sphere of Russian life.
Economists who become policy advisors are great fans of simplicity, uniformity, and arm's-length relations between government and the private sector, not because of economic theory or empirical evidence, but because of unexamined and untested assumptions.
Nevertheless, Zidane will remain a global icon, owing to his profoundly human character and his extreme simplicity.
At a time when, in France as in the rest of the world, the chasm between the elite and ordinary people has never been so wide, when the smugness of the affluent has never been so cruelly felt by the less fortunate, Zidane, a son of despised immigrants, became an international star, and yet preserved the simplicity of his origins.
In fact, the report’s simplicity is the key to its effectiveness.
Indeed, one might legitimately question whether we have a “system” at all, at least compared to the Bretton Woods arrangements and, before that, the seeming simplicity of the gold standard.
The hope underlying the current transparency proposals is that their relative simplicity would boost their impact.
The eight original MDGs, which include reducing child mortality and achieving universal primary education, are lauded for their simplicity and measurability.
It is difficult to deny the appealing simplicity of this argument.
OXFORD – While austerity in Europe faces increasing social resistance, in principle it has the merit of simplicity.
Again, simplicity rules.
But our approach has the important practical advantage of simplicity.
In his recent speech to the annual, elite central-banking conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Bank of England’s Andy Haldane made a forceful plea for a return to simplicity in banking regulation.
But the next time that someone advocates a single financial regulator and its simplicity, remember that there is another side to that coin: where are the safety valves?
By renouncing simplicity, it also repudiates today’s prevailing confusion of information with literature, of facts with creativity, and best-selling products with true works of art.
After bank bailouts, Bernard Madoff-type financial scandals, and a housing bubble that left Americans high and dry, it is as if the collective unconscious is recasting life on yachts and perfectly manicured golf courses as distasteful, and thrifty, often rural simplicity as a virtuously cleansing relief.
Not surprisingly, the last time American culture had such a reversal of iconography was during the Great Depression, when films like “The Grapes of Wrath” cast down-to-earth simplicity – versus the corruption of wealthy elites – as a shining virtue.
With his over-familiarity, simplicity, and occasional vulgarity, Sarkozy undermined the dignity of his sacred function.
The pomp and glory that surrounds the exercise of political power in France has nothing to do with the rustic simplicity of a “small but proud people,” as Norway’s prime minister put it after the tragedy.
The very simplicity of this scheme will likely ensure high visibility and reasonable take-up rates.
The simplicity of the Cold War left little need for explanation.
The key to EU governments’ underwriting of entrepreneurs is simplicity.
People yearn for the simplicity of the past.
The joy of opposition is its simplicity;Ukrainians understood what we opposed and stood side by side with us.
Given their simplicity, fog-harvesting systems have minimal running costs and are easily managed by unskilled teams.
Despite the well-documented limitations of these measures, their simplicity – not to mention the competition inherent to scientific progress – makes them widely appealing.
While not always evident from the headlines, an underlying cause of the eurozone crisis – and now an obstacle for growth in the south – has been the divergence in production costs that developed between the peripheral countries, notably the “south” (specifically, Greece, Spain, Italy, and Portugal) and the “north” (for simplicity, Germany) during the first decade after the introduction of the euro.
First, a referendum reduces complexity to absurd simplicity.
Economists begin by summing up everyone’s money incomes to derive nominal Gross Domestic Product – or, for the sake of simplicity, the country’s total money income (N).
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