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The ugly facts have been apparent for a while, but people cannot abandon one mental framework unless another one can take its place: in the end, beautiful old theories are killed only by newer, more powerful theories.
Sanguine macroeconomic assumptions and fanciful theories about the effects of tax cuts underpinned rosy scenarios.
Unrealistic macroeconomic assumptions, farfetched theories about tax cuts, and legislation that deliberately misrepresented policy plans all worked as intended, yielding overly optimistic forecasts, which in turn help to explain excessive budget deficits.
The pendulum has since swung in the US, with biological theories of mental disease displacing all other causal contenders.
Instead of giving serious consideration to unfounded theories speculating that excessively low interest rates could, under certain conditions, discourage growth and investment, the Fed should have committed itself even more decisively to zero or even negative rates.
A third narrative is based on competing economic theories.
To those addicted to conspiracy theories, they are an essential part of the secret history of the Cold War.
Are we so sure of Darwin’s theories of evolution that we should ban alternative notions of genesis from schools?
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.
But an emerging group of scientists points to phenomena that current theories do not address well.
In each of these areas -- physics, biochemistry and social science -- the theories are mature and largely uncontroversial.
Information is at work on each level and comfortable theories explain how the separate ones operate.
Before they can do any good, the forecasters must go back to the drawing board, and ask themselves whether the theories of the economy underpinning their models are the right ones.
Critics of globalization latched onto these newer economic theories, claiming that they demanded a rethinking of the traditional case for free trade.
Anti-Semitic theories and parties were emerging in Germany, Austria, and Hungary.
Meanwhile, policymakers were lulled into complacency by the widespread acceptance of economic theories such as the “efficient-market hypothesis,” which assumes that investors act rationally and use all available information when making their decisions.
The advanced economies and China together need to develop theories and policies which recognize that banks are different, and that the case for free-market competition – valid in other economic sectors – does not apply to them.
One should know that all manner of conspiracy theories are often uncritically echoed.
With policymaking having been subjected to the malign influence of a rising plutocracy, economists calling for “bold persistent experimentation” were swimming against the tide – even though well-founded economic theories justified precisely that course of action.
We economists and our theories did make a big difference.
Various theories draw on this basic framework – and each competing explanation suggests different strategies for reducing health inequalities.
By contrast, “psychosocial” theories suggest that it is the psychological experience of inequality – the feelings of inferiority or superiority generated by social hierarchies – that matters.
The “life course” approach combines multiple theories to contend that the unequal accumulation of social, psychological, and biological advantages or disadvantages over time, beginning in utero, produces health inequalities.
Given that all of these theories can, to some extent, be supported by scientific evidence, politics can matter more than science in determining which strategies policymakers pursue to reduce health inequalities.
Today, conspiracy theories abound in Mexico about the origins of the virus, because government officials are viewed with such ingrained suspicion.
There has always been a thriving market for fake information, forgeries, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories.
While theories of just war instruct us not to hurt non-combatants, Hamas and its military arm have made a conscious decision, banking on global humanitarian concerns, to ensure that Israel hits as many civilians as possible.
These efforts are based on theories which were developed in the nineteenth century as a result of the economic and social conflicts produced by industrialization.
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.
But politics, far from rising to take its place, continues to be discredited, as mainstream leaders – particularly in North America and Europe – call on economic theories to justify their policy choices.
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