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But it is important in those fields, both theoretical and applied, that might be used as an input in the production of new technologies: physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, etc.
But there is no empirical or theoretical evidence to support this claim.
The NNPC's executives admit that proper monitoring of the company's operating costs consistently eludes them and that what keeps Shell and the other western oil companies in business is not the theoretical margin, but the returns they build into their costs.
When the Stern Review on the economics of climate change was published seven years ago, the subject was largely theoretical.
Looking at the pre-2007 world, there was ample evidence to warrant such theoretical concerns.
What Ridley fails to recognize is that the theoretical underpinnings of these inventions may be the result of earlier basic research that had no particular intended practical application; that its significance was completely unsuspected when it was conducted.
Discovering the solution required the development of advanced theoretical techniques.
While ideas about this abound, new theoretical breakthroughs most likely will be needed to develop the machinery required to solve such electron-electron theories, perhaps even involving black holes.
While theoretical arguments can be made to justify recent departures from policy, the reality is that in the post-crisis world, advanced-country central banks’ goals are no longer limited to price stability.
Seemingly irrefutable theoretical models underlie a paradigm that has changed in significant ways, and that, if preserved, is bound to cause serious political problems.
But what was once a theoretical notion now seems to be a concrete possibility.
Not surprisingly, despite its theoretical benefits, health IT has few fans among health-care providers.
Can this vicious circle - which is not just a theoretical threat but an unfortunate reality in many countries - be broken?
An opposition party may voice aspirations, make promises, and even dream a little; but a government party cannot remain in some imaginary world or theoretical system.
Without amnesty from a body such as the UN Security Council, the theoretical possibility that he could be prosecuted would be preserved.
The agenda will focus on ending the conflict, without endless discussion of theoretical or doctrinaire questions.
Progress happens by moving into what the theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman calls the “adjacent possible,” which implies that the best way to find out what is likely to be feasible in a country is to consider what is already there.
Economists have spent their lives attempting to evolve theories that would account for how salient features of reality might emerge if we did live in their ideal world, but since we don’t, their theoretical enterprise is of doubtful utility.
This is not a theoretical proposition.
But, while allowing the EFSF to finance buybacks is a step forward, a slew of theoretical and empirical research, generated by developing countries’ efforts to buy back their debt in the 1980’s and 1990’s, has shown that it is far from a cure-all.
Some people have suggested that the theoretical work on information imperfections recognized by the Nobel committee is unrelated to the policy positions I took at the World Bank on East Asia, on Russia, or development.
Though North never focused explicitly on China’s institutional development, his theoretical framework could prove invaluable to the country’s leaders as they navigate the next phase of institutional change.
North’s theoretical legacy could prove vital for China’s policymakers in the coming years, because it gives them specific guidance about how to cross the river of rapid institutional change.
The real issue is not a theoretical question about Islam, but concerns the religious practices of Muslims.
But economics is not evidence-based in selecting its theoretical paradigms.
That is why the austerians are so against it, and why even those who accept the theoretical case for a stimulus insist on implementing it through monetary policy alone.
The researchers behind gene drives have only just begun to consider the implications of laboratory-produced genes behaving at odds with what their theoretical models predict.
Although the zero nominal bound on interest rates – previously only a theoretical possibility – had been reached and zero-interest-rate policy (ZIRP) had been implemented, growth remained anemic.
This has some theoretical validity, but ignores malaria’s dependence on poor infrastructure and health care.
Indeed, the risk that Pakistani pilgrims could carry the problem with them on the 2013 Hajj, the largest annual congregation of Muslims, is not just a theoretical threat.
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