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Then, Louis Pasteur and other scientists developed the germ theory, microscopes improved, and scientists began to identify the sizes and shapes of microbes.
Yet his findings were largely ignored until Louis Pasteur popularized the germ
theory
of disease over a decade later.
In theory, as capital floods in, these countries’ exchange rates will appreciate rapidly, making them look unattractive and automatically stemming the flow.
In theory, as the economy picks up and interest rates begin to climb, central banks will simply pay higher interest rates on their reserves, so that they can finance their holdings of long-term securities and shrink them slowly.
In lieu of a solid
theory
explaining the relationship between goods and services, on the one hand, and money and finance, on the other, this could not be more beneficial.
Keynes’s General
Theory
at 80LONDON – In 1935, John Maynard Keynes wrote to George Bernard Shaw: “I believe myself to be writing a book on economic
theory
which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about its economic problems.”
Eighty years later, does Keynes’s
theory
still hold up?
First, Keynes invented macroeconomics – the
theory
of output as a whole.
He called his
theory
“general” to distinguish it from the pre-Keynesian theory, which assumed a unique level of output – full employment.
The aggregate equations that underpin Keynes’s “general theory” still populate economics textbooks and shape macroeconomic policy.
Having said this, Keynes’s
theory
of “underemployment” equilibrium is no longer accepted by most economists and policymakers.
It also spares us the attempt to stick all kinds of possibly desirable objectives into the definition, like equality in social as well as technical terms, a general
theory
of the actual process of "democratisation," or even a set of civic virtues of participation.
States could, in theory, reinvent themselves as the political equivalent of Nike-minimizing in-house activities by contracting out ever more of their functions to providers in the global market.
NEW YORK – In theory, it is hard to think of any nobler computer service than the typical “Help Wanted” board.
Recent oil-price fluctuations resemble the classic cobweb model of microeconomic
theory.
When this
theory
came into contact with reality, the result was sobering.
Instead, Taylor seems to have settled on another
theory
– his rent-control analogy – for why the government is doing everything wrong.
In theory, all that is needed in order to get out of debt is to increase taxes and cut spending.
In theory, the negotiations are being held between the government in Kyiv and the leaders of the separatist regions.
If the males are released over a period of several months, this would, in theory, result in a marked reduction in the mosquito population.
Both experience and macroeconomic
theory
indicate what to expect.
Perhaps, but the bogeyman
theory
seems a bit overblown.
A politician notorious for leaping onto every available conspiracy
theory
went so far as to suggest foul play.
Many experts advocate raising the official retirement age as an efficient tool, because it would-in theory, at least-increase the pool of contributors while shrinking the pool of benefit recipients.
Indeed, the Stability and Growth Pact, like Europe’s no-bail out clause, ignored the pertinent economic
theory
(some say any economic theory).
Indeed, so-called “second-wave” feminist
theory
abounds in assertions that war, racism, love of hierarchy, and general repressiveness belong to “patriarchy”; women’s leadership, by contrast, would naturally create a more inclusive, collaborative world.
That is not a
theory
or an empirical regularity.
In theory, monetary authorities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay adhere to the modern orthodoxy of inflation targeting, which holds that price stability is the main (perhaps the only) goal of monetary policy, the short-term interest rate should be the only instrument used to achieve the inflation target, and the exchange rate ought to float freely.
Instead, they seem to be doubling down, on the
theory
that the deeper the crisis, the more successful the push for structural reforms will be.
It is about detecting and addressing problems affecting all of those who interact with the organization including, for example, the family of Seth Rich, the murder victim around whom Fox News host Sean Hannity has spun a bizarre – and thoroughly refuted – conspiracy
theory.
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