Sentences with phrase «economic calculations of»

Andrew G. Keeler, who until June 2001 was on the president's Council of Economic Advisers and has since returned to teaching at the University of Georgia, said the Clinton administration had also played with economic calculations of the costs of curbing carbon dioxide emissions, in its case to show that limiting emissions would not be expensive.

Politicians and business leaders must make full economic calculations of the impact of the new Little Ice Age on everything — industry, agriculture, living conditions, development.

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.

Not exact matches

According to the World Economic Forum, two thirds of OECD countries have introduced policies on pay equality, including requiring some employers to publish calculations every year showing the gender pay gap.

If real GDP were to increase at 10.3 % instead of 2.5 % in 2015, then the government should receive, at a minimum, an extra $ 6.6 billion in tax revenue thanks to economic growth (this calculation assumes that nominal GDP grows at the same proportion as real GDP; it is more likely that nominal GDP would rise even higher as such quick economic growth would be inflationary, pushing that $ 6.6 billion figure even higher).

Applying the lower of these two weighted - average calculations (24 percentage points) to Canada's existing automotive manufacturing footprint (and assuming that the dislocation for Canada's industry is only proportional to the overall North American shrinkage, an assumption which is probably optimistic), allows us to generate an estimate of the potential scale of economic loss if the U.S. - Japan rules were implemented.

All in, a back of the envelope calculation suggests that Amazon contributed a little under 5 % of the Seattle region's economic output during this period.

The previous post presented Hayek's knowledge problem in the context of the economic calculation debate under socialism.

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See full details on every calculation and adjustment we make, with complete reconciliations of our economic metrics back to reported GAAP values.

The efficient frontier calculation, based on the recent five years, takes into the account the poor performance of European assets during the economic downturn.

In the 50,000 10 - Ks reviewed by New Constructs, we have almost never seen as clear an articulation of the focus on economic earnings nor as much detail on the calculations.

A report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers is the first official calculation of the tax framework's impact and its focus on cutting corporate rates underscores how central that effort is to the administration's overall plan.

At the same time, Ludwig von Mises published an article in 1920 called «Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society» and a 1922 book, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, arguing that comprehensive central planning of the economy would be disastrous because central planners lacked market prices and market institutions to inform their actions, hence they would waste resources on a vast and even fatal scale.

Röpke's approach recognizes the objective aspects of the economic science but insists that normative values lie at its core; a healthy polity must move beyond calculations of utility if it is to uphold just and humane economic institutions.

In any case, as transportation costs rise, even narrowly economic calculations will cease to count in favor of the present globalized system.

«14 Economic activity is governed by calculations of profit, reward, and competition, not by principles of unselfish service.

But calculations of this sort play very little role in economic theory and practice.

The students Brooks examined in 2001, who had entered adolescence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, spent their formative years in a world predicted by Francis Fukuyama in 1992: «The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.»

Already at the end of the nineteenth century, Thorstein Veblen argued that consumption isn't merely a matter of rational economic calculation.

In the WABA ’98 Action Sheet, WABA cautions that «economic calculations underestimate the larger value of breastfeeding.

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.

An aide to DiNapoli said questions remain regarding the timetable for ams» promised investment, a full accounting of the state's previous investments at the site (some infrastructure has been built by Mohawk Valley EDGE, an economic development authority) and a calculation on the total return on the investment.

By means of building simulations and advanced calculation models, the researchers came to the conclusion that using plenty of energy is both an economic and an environmental advantage, while it is also inexpensive and green.

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.

Economists and scientists developed the calculation to give policymakers a better idea of the economic benefits of cutting methane emissions.

But the estimated economic cost of this differs wildly between the US and the EU because of the calculations used.

The calculation model the authors used includes economic benefits for producers and consumers as well as the benefits of reduced malnutrition among subsistence farm - households often not explicitly considered in previous studies.

For their calculations of economic impact, the authors estimate the expected growth of a state's economy if the current knowledge capital of workers were to remain unchanged and compare this growth path to the one that would be achieved with better schools.

The results of such calculations, using standard economic assumptions and actuarial survivor probabilities, are shown in Figure 1, where we plot the growth of pension wealth over the career cycle for a typical educator in Missouri under three different promotion scenarios, in 2012 dollars.

Strong teachers, by our calculations, can lead us to the top of the world rankings — and gain us the commensurate economic performance.

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.

Quantitative Analysis is referred to as the economic, business or financial analysis that aims to predict or understand behaviour or events through the use of mathematical measurements and calculations, statistical modelling and research.

Interestingly enough, E.on presents its own «economic financial debt» calculation on page 45 of the annual report, including pensions etc.:

There's also quantitative analysis which, with the help of computer programs, statistics and mathematical calculations analyses certain economic variables in order to identify trends.

However, backtested data may reflect the application of the index methodology with the benefit of hindsight, and the historical calculations of an index may change from month to month based on revisions to the underlying economic data used in the calculation of the index.

Monetary calculation only has meaning within the sphere of economic organization.

Those pushing for a rising price (via a tax or cap) on emissions make the economic case that as long as the environmental costs of burning fossil fuels (or cutting forests) aren't reflected in the accounting calculations driving those activities, «burn baby burn» will remain business as usual.

Nobel Prize - winning economist Kenneth Arrow wrote recently that «These calculations [on costs and benefits of slowing global warming] indicate that, even with higher discounting, The Stern Review's estimates of future benefits and costs imply that mitigation makes economic sense.»

It seems obvious, but the economic calculation has to be reset to account for the environment — it is just incorrect, economically, to not have the true cost to the environment, to world species, part of every equation.

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As usual with intricate, headache - inducing calculations that involve the global carbon budget, the researchers had to think about the economic costs of such steps, and factor in the most cost - effective solutions.

Now the Obama Administration is unleashing a host of new mandates and standards, based on arbitrary «social cost of carbon» calculations that assume fossil fuel use imposes numerous climate and other costs, but brings minimal or no economic or societal benefits.

Benestad also noted a post from climate blogger Tim Lambert, who pointed out an error in the calculation of area weighting (a mixup of radians and degrees) that almost doubled the portion of warming trend attributed by McKitrick to economic factors, despite McKitrick's claim that the correction «hardly changed the results» (hat tip to Frank O'Dwyer).

These global climate models typically receive inputs from neoclassical economic and human demographic models for calculations of future greenhouse gas emissions.

His March 28 executive order «promoting energy independence and economic growth» rescinded the Obama administration's calculation of the «social cost of carbon» — a metric that had been central to the process of crafting and justifying government rules addressing human - driven climate change.

The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr Georg Kaser of Innsbruck University, an expert in glaciers and global warming, explains the uncertainty calculation, a scientific tool needed to gather reliable results, and anthropogenic forcing, which is a change in the Earth's energy balance due to human economic activities.

By the way, my economic calculations are heavily informed by the Economist, which of course doesn't make them right.