According to its CEO, Vodafone invested in data towers in India even though early economic calculations didn't seem profitable.
Not exact matches
Although one could argue that we are wrong in subtracting certain things or in using the values we
do at various points, and so claim that
economic welfare has in fact not declined in recent years, it would be equally possible to reintroduce leisure into our
calculations and end up with figures indicating a more drastic decline.
This was strategic development — a
calculation that a strong solar sector would
do more for the economy in the long term — whereas support for wind power made more immediate
economic sense.
The economy in TVP is in fact planned but fully expects the use of advanced computer systems to
do the
economic calculation since otherwise this task is - as it is well known - considered impracticable in complexity.
What's more, the
calculations do not include the extra work people can
do if they live longer or the costs of caring for people suffering from pollution - related disease, so the
economic benefits are likely underestimated.
The researchers point out that their
calculations did not include the health and
economic harms caused by second hand smoke or smokeless forms of tobacco, and that their estimates of lost productivity applied only to those who were economically active.
«It's a delay of
economic growth but it is not sacrificing
economic growth,» Edenhofer noted, adding that this
calculation does not take into account related benefits, such as a reduction in deadly air pollution and saved human lives, or salvaged nature.
The latter statistic represents the «pipeline» of those ready for college and the 21st century workplace, is a more realistic measure of educational success and the challenge we face than any «dropout»
calculation might indicate, and
does not bode well, not only for our
economic competitiveness, but for the future of responsible democratic citizenship.
By the way, my
economic calculations are heavily informed by the Economist, which of course doesn't make them right.
What is the value of an integrated assessment model that combines highly unlikely physical scenarios with an
economic model that
does economic calculations based on numbers that are throughout pure guesswork, and
does that furthermore in a way that overemphasizes highly the part of the period on which we know as little as 19th century people knew about today?
the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked to coal - burning power stations: they
did not make a
calculation about the
economic costs of chronic illness linked to polluted air, nor
did they estimate the health costs that might be linked to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil fuel combustion.
Importantly, the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked to coal - burning power stations: they
did not make a
calculation about the
economic costs of chronic illness linked to polluted air, nor
did they estimate the health costs that might be linked to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil fuel combustion.
Then an economist will evaluate that vocational
economic report to determine what the financial impact is and
do the
calculations.
And though the
economic calculation of bang for the buck will likely first be made by governments and quasi-governmental agencies charged with assessing the merits of this or that A2J solution, corporations can count too and, bless them, exist for no other purpose than to maximize their bottom lines, leading, as it almost always
does, to «good enough» approaches to the solution of difficulty.