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Whereas the principle of
utility
calls for inquiry and argument, Bentham believes that those who advocate such pre-existing rights disdain both and are more likely to stir people up to use force.
When it comes to “maximizing utility,” they are far more effective than any human.
They could not track down phlogiston for the same reason that economists today cannot offer a measure of actual
utility.
Economists use the concept of
utility
to explain why people make the choices they do – what to buy, where to invest, how hard to work: everyone is trying to maximize
utility
in accordance with one’s preferences and beliefs about the world, and within the limits posed by scarce income or resources.
Despite not existing,
utility
is a powerful construct.
Moreover, economists’ notion of
utility
is born of classical utilitarianism, which aims to secure the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people.
While guardedly encouraged by recent reports of the remarkable plasticity of stem cells obtained from adult tissues, scientists know little about their potential for prolonged maintenance outside the body, their capacity for differentiation, and whether they can be obtained in the quantities needed to explore their
utility
for clinical use.
There have been simultaneous protests in the past, but usually against increases in rent or
utility
charges.
President Shimon Peres, who, unlike Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, is skeptical of the
utility
of an attack on Iran’s nuclear installations, spoke of the “threat of extermination” facing Israel.
The evolutionary
utility
of the beauty of physical laws is somewhat less obvious, but no less real.
Given this mindset, performance was not a relevant criterion for judging the
utility
of the public sector.
Tight-knit cliques of bureaucrats and corporate officials made sure that a
utility
company vital for economic growth would never be hindered by strict regulation or political oversight.
On the other hand, it crowds out virtues that have no economic utility, like heroism, honor, generosity, and pity.
With the world's focus on the debate over Iraq, the war on terror, and the Bush administration's doctrine of unilateral preemption, the American government's new emphasis on the
utility
of nuclear weapons has not received the attention it deserves.
Secretary of State John Kerry’s description of the planned US military response to the Ghouta massacre as likely to be “unbelievably small” almost derailed the
utility
of the US threat in concentrating Syrian and Russian officials’ minds.
Both sides want not only to preclude the Assad regime’s further use of chemical weapons, but also to find a route to sustainable peace in Syria, and to reestablish the authority and
utility
of the UN in these situations.
Its
utility
comes from what its holder can make others do.
As states and organizations come to understand better the importance of the Internet to their economic wellbeing, cost-benefit calculations of the
utility
of cyber warfare may change, just as learning over time altered the understanding of the costs of nuclear warfare.
Exercising power externally apparently compensates for the fact that dignity within the country is far from restored: Today’s Russian citizen remains defenseless before his bosses, the
utility
companies, the courts, and the police – and yet, whatever his hardships, he remains proud of his nation and its leader.
“Truth and utility,” wrote Francis Bacon, the early seventeenth-century English philosopher and statesman, “are the very same things.”
Where the poet John Keats wrote “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” Bacon might have said, “Utility is truth, truth utility”—as long as we take “utility” in a very broad sense.
Like Bacon, we value
utility
because it seems to lend credibility to the claims that science makes about the nature of the world – science is true because it works.
But, at the same time, we won’t allow science to be reduced to practical utility, because that would destroy its intellectual status, as well as the intellectual status of scientists themselves, and would prevent science from giving explanations.
Micro-development economists need to recognize that one can learn from diverse types of evidence, and that, while randomized evaluations are tremendously useful, the
utility
of their results is often restricted by the narrow scope of their application.
We become indebted in order to consume because we are convinced that our
utility
schedule is more important than someone else’s.
When Jill receives a present from Jack that cost him $X, but which gives her less
utility
than she would gain from commodity Y, which retails for $Y (that is less than or equal to $X), Jill is forced either to accept this
utility
loss or to undertake the costly and usually imperfect business of exchanging Jack’s gift for Y. Either way, there is a deadweight loss involved.
The Scots, however, saw the
utility
of circumscribed state interventions to broaden opportunity and help enterprise to grow.
We can now see the
utility
of a more flexible toolkit to respond to excessive credit expansion, or asset-price bubbles, where the manipulation of short-term interest rates can be a blunt instrument or, worse, a double-edged sword.
The
utility
of the state is clear.
The ongoing
utility
and value of used cars creates a vast, stratified marketplace with many options in both features and purchase price.
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