Sentences with phrase «by economic logic»

First, and most politically, we need to recognise that anthropogenic climate change is driven primarily by the economic logic of global fossil fuel extraction, and only to a lesser extent by the social practices and infrastructure that shape national emissions.

This is a human demand at the present time, but it is also demanded by economic logic.

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Eliminating the deficit by 2015 - 16 was never based on any economic logic.

Given the U.S. veto power by Wall Street and the insistence that right - wing anti-labor ideologues (usually French) be appointed head of the IMF, a new organization representing the kind of economic logic outlined by Keynes, Harold Moulton and others in the 1920s is necessary.

This logic of gratuitousness, learnt in infancy and adolescence, is then lived out in every area of life... once it has been assimilated it can be applied to the most complex areas of political and economic life... It is here that the lay faithful are called to give generously of the formation they have received, guided by the principles of the Church's Social Doctrine, for the sake of authentic secularism, social justice, the defence of life and of the family, freedom of religion and education.

The People of Southern Kaduna in Diaspora (SOKAD) has described as, «deficient of logic and reason» the non inclusion of Kaduna state by the sub-committee of the National Economic Council (NEC) set up to visit frontline States suffering from herdsmen versus farmers violence.

Finalists: How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and The Evolution of God by Robert Wright (Little, Brown and Company)

While there are dozens of factors that drive investment returns, we believe the five factors below have been well documented by academic research, economic logic, and empirical evidence to be the most impactful drivers of long - term returns.

Lu was a Co-Artistic Director of ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale (Korea, 2012)[9] through which her focus developed around the ways in which the de-bordering and loosening of economic, sovereign, social, cultural and historic frameworks by digitization, global trade and political movements challenges our ideological and national logics.

What this means is that the notion that the conflict between our economic system and the earth's ecological system can't be fixed by technological innovations or management actions that leave the basic logic of the capitalist economy untouched.

Recent confessions released by federal courts indicate that corruption from the construction companies involved financed the last two presidential election campaigns, thus providing a rationale for detachment of decisions from normal economic logic.

... when it comes to the real - world consequences of those scientific findings, specifically the kind of deep changes required not just to our energy consumption but to the underlying logic of our economic system, the crowd gathered at the Marriott Hotel may be in considerably less denial than a lot of professional environmentalists, the ones who paint a picture of global warming Armageddon, then assure us that we can avert catastrophe by buying «green» products and creating clever markets in pollution.

This is the stark conclusion drawn by Anderson and Bows: «The logic of such studies suggests (extremely) dangerous climate change can only be avoided if economic growth is exchanged, at least temporarily, for a period of planned austerity within Annex 1 nations and a rapid transition away from fossil - fuelled development within non-Annex 1 nations.»

That is because, contrary to mainstream economic theories and conventional wisdom, the markets are not moved by rational logic, but by irrational emotional human beings.