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Several products that could revolutionize transfusion medicine have already been developed in the pursuit of shelf-stable, portable, one-type-fits-all blood substitutes, which could replace standard blood transfusions in extreme situations, such as on the battlefield.
(Non-hemoglobin synthetic blood substitutes, known as fluorocarbons, have proved to be less effective oxygen carriers.)
Some recent therapeutic possibilities include the co-infusion of haptoglobin with hemoglobin in circulation or with vitamin C – additives that hold promising implications for the development of safe and effective blood substitutes.
Safe blood substitutes and new therapeutic options that make blood transfusion more effective would significantly improve treatment in challenging situations.
It is not clear whether there are effective substitutes for industrialization.
As skilled labor becomes increasingly expensive relative to unskilled labor, firms and businesses have a greater incentive to find ways to “cheat” by using substitutes for high-price inputs.
Leaving aside short-term speculative markets, demand will then decrease and supply (including the supply of substitutes) will increase.
The Paris agreement essentially substitutes transparency for compliance, creating an “enhanced transparency framework” designed “to build mutual trust and confidence and to promote effective implementation.”
The new kind of global governance that the Paris agreement exemplifies, which substitutes rolling processes for fixed rules, is far better suited to the kinds of global problems we face today.
But these bodies must not be seen as substitutes for the far more comprehensive accession process, which only the EU itself can initiate.
If the purchasing power of their money had been dealt a blow after 2008, they would naturally have sought substitutes for their home currencies (other currencies, precious metals, or alternative forms of saving).
From the standpoint of American consumers, the only effect is that imports from China (now subject to tax) and their US-produced substitutes are both more costly than before.
At that point, prices fall, and exploration and investment decline as well, including for oil substitutes.
But technological progress occasionally substitutes one for another, as with coffee and tea.
For one thing, technology-intensive warfare substitutes machines for soldiers, reducing the number of American casualties.
We have experienced technological change that substitutes machines and computers for individual workers for many years.
We must then find substitutes that are more costly and less satisfactory.
When people raise their voices – say, to ban advertising for breast-milk substitutes or to demand access to life-saving drugs – big corporations often listen.
Averaging the numbers assumes that all components are substitutes: if you cannot improve on one, you can compensate by improving on another.
This is not to say that athletic glory substitutes for military glory.
Far too many US households made enormous bets on the property bubble, believing that their paper gains were permanent substitutes for stagnant labor income.
China’s leadership clearly understands that the economy cannot reach its full potential with central and local bureaucracies serving as substitutes for the market.
There is also a suspicion that dirty capitalist pigs want to profit from the sale of opiate substitutes, regardless of whether they work.
But, as both traditional Keynesians and FTPL followers would note, quantitative easing – which amounts to an exchange of money for its close substitutes (zero-interest bonds) – becomes less effective in stimulating demand over time.
After all, there are substitutes for many resources, including oil, but none for water.
These policies are not substitutes but complements: they must all be undertaken at the same time.
As automation substitutes for labor in a growing number of occupations, the impact on the quantity and quality of jobs will intensify.
Free products also depress the value of close substitutes.
It also assumed that machines and workers were close substitutes, whereas more often than not workers could still do things that machines could not.
Because computer programs and humans are close substitutes for such jobs, and given the predictable improvement in computing power, there seems to be no technical obstacle to the redundancy of workers across much of the service economy.
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