Sentences with phrase «much economic theory»

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Economic theory does not tell us anything about how much tax and transfer rates should vary as incomes rise.

Much like the crony capitalist elite dining in Davos, the fine purveyors of bogus economic theory inhabiting the halls of the Marriner Eccles building are probably a tad bit concerned with the recent rise in rates.

now, basic economic theory tells us that when there is more money, it's not worth as much, if the minimum wage is raised, there will indeed be more money, and it will indeed be worth a lot less, because prices will skyrocket.

These assumptions determine much of the outcome of economic theory.

This helps explain why our debt burden has not yet triggered what standard economic theory would dictate: a steep decline in the value of the U.S. dollar followed by a severe contraction of the American economy when we found we could no longer afford the foreign goods we like so much.

Nevertheless, their success would have been much less had they lacked the strong support of the dominant economic theory.

Robert Skidelsky «s two volume biography is now much in demand from libraries, and in September the author will be publishing Keynes: The Return of the Master (Allen Lane # 20.00) which will consider the man and his economic theories in a modern context.

It is like the writer is saying the people at the Mises Institute are evil because they had some money — not all that much --- and they wanted to spread the word around the world about their economic theories.

In fact, the distribution has a much fatter tail of large price fluctuations, subverting a crucial assumption that underlies much of economic theory.

While economic theory lends no general support to the idea that removing distortions from one market must lead to an improvement in general welfare, much free - market politics assumes that it does so.

That raises the worry that much of Button's good work could be undone by the application of simplistic economic theories.

According to conservatives, the great sin teachers colleges have committed in the past few decades is that they have focused too much on theory and not enough on clinical practice — and by «theory,» they mean critical pedagogy and other theories that enable prospective teachers to situate school knowledge, practices, and modes of governance within wider historical, social, cultural, economic, and political contexts.

It's mostly about economic theory, but does get at one of the keystone concepts explored here — which is how many people, consuming how much stuff, can one livable planet support?

While economic theory provides a strong basis for assessing economy ‐ wide economic instruments, much mitigation action is being pursued at the sectoral level.

It isn't the end of modern economic theory, economists don't rely on continual growth to work their theories, they are just as happy to tell you how much your shrinking as how much your growing.