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Why engage in theoretical debates with your ideological opponents, the Islamists are saying, when one can simply shut them up for good?
While the effects of trade liberalization on growth are well established on both theoretical and empirical grounds, the question of what open trade can do for the cause of global income equality is less well understood.
Nikita Khrushchev may have overturned Stalinism, but he was no less a prisoner of theoretical perversity.
But the theoretical investigations of Borda, Condorcet, and others often yielded rather pessimistic results.
They must also engage more with the real-world applications of their theoretical work, which may have the added benefit of advancing the field of ethics.
The Fed blames (rightly) foreign central banks that are keeping interest rates too low to prevent their currencies from appreciating against the dollar; but the Fed cannot set policy assuming others respond with a theoretical ideal.
The World Health Organization’s Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases has called upon regulatory agencies to emphasize “science-based, case-by-case targeted requirements with a degree of practical parsimony,” instead of relying on “a precautionary approach that can require data to address all theoretical risks.”
This would make the IMF staff more cognizant of the value of local knowledge relative to theoretical expertise.
Fascism with a Feminist FaceNEW YORK – Western feminism has made some memorable theoretical mistakes; a major one is the frequent assumption that, if women held the decision-making power in society, they would be “kinder and gentler” (a phrase devised for George H.W. Bush in 1988 to appeal to the female vote).
But theoretical physicists already know how many different types of components are required to make a quantum computer, and how complicated these components must be.
Two separate discussions about the rule of law are currently underway: an erudite, theoretical debate among elites at think tanks and universities, and a more general – and more consequential – popular “conversation” predicated on frustration with legal abuses.
This is not a theoretical possibility – such risks manifested themselves quite clearly in late 2008 and into early 2009.
Using one candle for each switched-off bulb cancels out even the theoretical CO2 reduction; using two candles means that you emit more CO2.
Even as he continued to produce outstanding theoretical articles, Rudi became interested in policy issues.
He became one of the outstanding policy economists of our time, displaying the same rare talent demonstrated in his theoretical work: the ability to extract the essence of a complicated problem and explain it in terms that made it appear simple.
These recommendations are based not on theoretical academic fancy, but on policies that are already proving their worth in at least one European country.
This mismatch between our understanding of gravity and the quantum theories of matter poses a huge conundrum for theoretical physicists, because it leads to mathematical contradictions.
Gravity's weakness makes it very difficult to measure its quantum effects; as a result, we have no experimental data to guide theoretical physicists in the development of the missing theory.
An editor of that magazine, Martin Jacques, who did as much as anyone at the time to provide a theoretical understanding of Thatcherism, recently explained to me why its significance was so often overlooked.
Unfortunately, however, ideas for debt-restructuring mechanisms remain just that: purely theoretical constructs.
And, while no one can be certain about where the limits lie, there are both theoretical and operational bounds to how many government bonds can (and should) be placed on the balance sheet of a modern, well-functioning central bank.
I am not a disinterested observer, but this is not the first time that I find Stiglitz’s policy commentary as weak as his academic theoretical work is strong.
The Great Recession of 2008-2009 suggests that China can no longer afford to treat the Four Uns as theoretical conjecture.
Only in a simplified theoretical model would these valuations be determined solely by growth in the expected underlying cash flows.
The theoretical ideal occurs when financial contracts spread the risks all over the world, so that billions of willing investors each own a tiny share, and no one is over-exposed.
The case of Japan shows that, despite some of our financial markets’ great sophistication, we are still a long way from the theoretical ideal.
There are prolonged periods when prices are moving away from any theoretical equilibrium.
Academy physicists had no intention of recognizing this theoretical achievement “even if the whole world demands it.”
Not until committee strongman C. W. Oseen died in 1944 could the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli – one of the giants of quantum mechanics – receive a prize.
By deregulating finance and trade, intensifying competition, and weakening unions, governments created the theoretical conditions that demanded redistribution from winners to losers.
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