Sentences with phrase «economic argument for»

We believe that the economic argument for solar is just as compelling as the environmental one and that everyone can save money and the environment at the same time.

In the end, the strongest economic argument for an aggressive response to climate change is not the much trumpeted windfall of green jobs.

The economic argument for larger turbines can be made across all wind resource areas in the US, says Bruce Hamilton, a director in Navigant Consulting's energy practice.

Suggesting a source separation method of waste stream diversion, and trying to build a convincing economic argument for source separation has been a challenge because there is plenty of evidence that it appears no one is presently interested.

This analytical report stresses that the response to the threat of climate change demands a «child - centred» approach and includes a scoping study that highlights some of the evidence in an economic argument for a child - centred approach to adaptation.

Although the economic argument for fossil fuel subsidies may seem apparent, reform has been challenging.

«Poll after poll has shown public opposition to the sale, and with the company making substantial profits, there is no economic argument for the sale.»

But perhaps looking to be pragmatic in addition to sympathetic, Ms. Mark - Viverito also made an economic argument for housing inmates closer to home.

Vote Leave (a cross-party grouping supported by Douglas Carswell, UKIP's only MP) wants to focus on the economic argument for Brexit, suggesting the UK could successfully become a Singapore style off - shore financial centre (open to capital and migration).

«Balls may have been right, but he was trying to win an economic argument for a fiscal stimulus from opposition, and that is hard.

But they are not so enamoured with his recent claim that the EU's «dismal» record of international trade destroys the economic argument for Remain.

And there might well be an economic argument for avoiding hard revenue squeezes in the context of Brexit.

Submission to blood - lust might be a vote - winner, but it is not really a very sound economic argument for taxing people differently based on the names of their employers.

There is, however, a powerful economic argument for investing in families given the role they play in creating social and economic value.

The US letter says: «We have not seen a compelling scientific, legal or economic argument for changing the current regulatory regime...» Well, there are plenty scientific, legal and economic arguments warranting the extension of the ban on advertising to 24 months.

The clearer economic argument for free trade is the second, namely, that it increases per capita Gross National Product or average consumption of goods and services.

Mr. Navarro's writings don't offer economic arguments for exempting Canada from those measures.

But we argue that the underlying social purpose of such Jubilees — to keep debt within the reasonable ability to be paid without social and economic polarisation — could be recreated via alternative mechanisms, and we discuss the politico - economic arguments for, and against, doing so.

It sets out the economic arguments for reducing food waste.

Engaging stakeholders and society in an issue that takes place miles from land and fathoms underwater can be a daunting task, especially in the face of economic arguments for mining the deep sea for materials used in products that society values, like cell phones and other electronics.

Edenhofer is a UN economist and researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and is responsible delivering the economic arguments for conducting the Great Transformation to a decarbonized society.

The 1998 reform: progressive economic arguments for introducing tuition [10] It was against this backdrop that the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education released the Dearing Report in 1997, which called for new tuition fees supported by an expanded and revised system of student loans.

I also believe that more emphasis should be placed on economic arguments for moving away from non-renewable carbon - based fuels because those impacts are more obvious at present than longer - term environmental impacts.

As I've written in the past, there are clear economic arguments for government funded, private sector executed basic R&D on various climate - friendly technologies (I'm talking about invention and innovation, not diffusion), namely the public - good nature of the product of R&D (information), which leads to under - investment, given price signals.

In 1981, my Harvard colleague, political scientist Steven Kelman surveyed Congressional staff members, and found that support and opposition to market - based environmental policy instruments was based largely on ideological grounds: Republicans, who supported the concept of economic - incentive approaches, offered as a reason the assertion that «the free market works,» or «less government intervention» is desirable, without any real awareness or understanding of the economic arguments for market - based programs.

In addition, economic arguments for not acting on climate change ignore obligations that nations have if they are creating human rights violations and duties entailed by distributive justice.

(For a good discussion of economic arguments for aggressive policies in support of renewable energy see, Germany Energy Transition, Henric Boll, 2012)

There are certainly economic arguments for the U.S. (or at least for some in the U.S.) in favor of building it (not to say that they're necessarily dispositive) including jobs for the builders, work for the refinery workers and profits for the refiners.

Since then, even among those with an axe to grind, the smarter types (like Ron Bailey and earlier Bjorn Lomborg) have abandoned denialism in favour of economic arguments for doing nothing.

The feature articles in these archives span from 2003 to 2011, including case studies on hundreds of Irish sustainable buildings and dozens of investigative pieces on everything from green design and building methods, to the economic arguments for low energy construction.

Still, there are a lot of economic arguments for why pass - through taxation is a more efficient, less distorting way to tax business income.

Not exact matches

This one will directly determine economic policy so complex, one columnist quipped, the arguments for and against «make my eyes cross.»

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

Let's assume that the argument for an increase in the minimum wage is a moral one, not an economic one.

While Alphabet CEO Larry Page can lean on his reputation as a tech visionary to make the case for big bets, Porat's arguments stand up only when underpinned with solid economic logic.

The economic fragility demonstrated by the 2008 crash provided a good argument for a more generous safety net.

Asked which province — B.C., which wants to delay the project for environmental reasons, or Alberta, which wants to avoid delays for economic reasons — is making the more compelling argument, Canadians are evenly split, with 50 per cent saying each province's government is more persuasive

The main argument Republicans use for further lowering rates for pass - through entities is that it would spur economic growth.

Don't fall for the argument that Americans must get out and spend to spur economic growth.

As my colleague Dylan Matthews points out, it's a bit of a strange argument, because even if a new NAFTA boosted US economic growth, funds for the wall would still come from US taxpayers.

The data released today by the BEA show pretty clearly that the arguments we make in House of Debt remain relevant for thinking about economic weakness today.

I see good arguments for continued easy money and economic growth to push multiples to all - time highs, and economic strength and tax cuts to push earnings higher.

Poloz's main argument for leaving interest rates low is that the obvious damage from an extended period of weak economic growth outweighs the hypothetical risk of a housing bust.

Even with WWI, or even more so with Iraq I, where stronger cases can be for the importance of U.S. economic motivation, it becomes very hard to distinguish the «we must not let Germany control Europe» or «Iraq control the Gulf» - type argument made on geostrategic grounds, from the same argument made on economic grounds.

Even so his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nationsis a remarkable work which deserves respect both as an enquiry and as an argument for economic liberty.

It is frustrating to see William Chip's well - documented argument of the economic and political evils of illegal immigration rebutted from Scaperlanda's supposedly moral standpoint, when in fact the victims in this scenario are the laborers working without regulations for workplace safety, without employment benefits, and even without police protection (since contact with law enforcement is associated with deportation).

Economic study tells us for every dollar invested in a local community, it generates at least 5 dollars in spending — which is the biggest argument against the way Tribal casinos are set up where the most money leaves the local community permanently.

He adds a pretty strong moral argument for the right and justice of liberty, including in the economic realm, i.e., no Obama «fairness.»

To make the economic case for an active population policy, population planners would ultimately need to center their arguments on estimates of the economic value of human life.

Let us consider the second type of argument for free trade, the economic one.