Sentences with phrase «economic models of future»

This does not only change the entire system, but brings concerns to the entire economic models of future economies.

Not exact matches

Projecting the future, or future - casting, is the work of combining social science, research, technical data, economic trends and, yes, even science fiction, to model a prediction of the future.

Yet judging by its school system — perhaps the most important indicator of a country's future economic performance — this Swedish model's looks appear to be fading fast.

Deloitte Access Economics offers a full suite of economic advisory services including economic forecasting, modelling, analysis and advisory services to help our clients plan for the future, understand the implications of major decisions, and navigate the complexities of economic policy.

Quantitative investing assumes that future performance of a security relative to other securities may be predicted based on historical economic and financial factors, however, any errors in a model used might not be detected until the fund has sustained a loss or reduced performance related to such errors.

All of the proposed controls that would have such a significant impact on the world's economic future are based on computer models that are so complex and chaotic that many runs are needed before we can get an «average» answer.

We must engineer the green economy of the future to compensate for the collapse of a discredited economic model dependent on credit binges, gravity defying house prices and increasing consumption.

The uncertainty associated with future climate projections linked to economic possibilities of what people will do is far larger than the uncertainty associated with physical climate models.

His story «The Machine That Would Predict the Future» explores the promise of the FuturICT project, an attempt to build a computer model of all the social, economic, ecological and scientific factors at play in the world.

These tests can be conducted with the help of computer models that depict future demographic and economic development and that examine the interplay between industry and the climate and other essential natural systems.

«So we should probably be using [these economic and climate] models to examine the impact of future climate change on various migrant - employing sectors of the southwestern U.S. economy.»

It is in cities that the social, economic and environmental sustainable development converge more intensely, making it become necessary to be thought out, planned and managed in accordance with sustainable development model that aims to meet the current needs of the Earth population without compromising its natural resources, bequeathing them to future generations.

To avoid the catastrophic future that is pronounced for the humanity of the resulting economic and environmental threats, it is essential to have the commitment of governments, public and private productive sector and individuals with the model of sustainable development.

An anticipatory event to the future organization of World Biomimetic Experience Summit 2017, where it will put on the spot the international reality of the Biomimetic as an emerging model to face a new social, economic and industrial scenario from a bioinspiring cosmo vision.

October 19: Schooling in the Workplace: The Swiss Model with Noel Ginsburg, chairman and CEO of Intertech Plastics and chair of Colorado Advanced Manufacturing Alliance; Nancy Hoffman, vice president of Jobs for the Future and author of Schooling in the Workplace; Ursula Renold, head of the Comparative Education System Research Division, Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zürich; and Marc Tucker, president of National Center on Education and the Economy and leader of NCEE's international study of vocational education systems.

Spanish version Around the world, young people of both sexes look to the future, and question current socio - economic models that are based on the irrational exploitation of natural resources.

But if the theory behind the Valuation - Informed Indexing model is on the mark, it is not economic conditions that are causing our troubles — it is the largely ignored reality that we borrowed $ 12 trillion from future investors to pay for the bull markets of the late 1990s and that we now need to pay that money back.

An economic moat is a structural feature of a startup's business model that protects it from competition in the present but enhances its competitive position in the future.

The collaboration between Lisson and Beirut heralds the beginning of a new collaborative project between two galleries occupying vastly different political, social and economic spaces and, in doing so, explores an innovating model for future curatorial practices.

(Warsaw, Poland) The theme of the exhibition «Slow Future» is degrowth, a social movement advocating that we should abandon the current model of compulsory economic growth and search for ways to improve the quality of life within the limits of capacity of natural environment.

The theme of the exhibition «Slow Future» is degrowth, a social movement advocating that we should abandon the current model of compulsory economic growth and search for ways to improve the quality of life within the limits of capacity of natural environment.

When the climate model output is fed into ecosystem models, and these in turn are coupled to socio - economic analysis tools, the potential future scenarios that come out, assuming the world continues its business as usual, appear rather grim, see e.g. the very interesting final report of the European ATEAM project.

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That's a standard bit of economic modeling prestidigitation, meant to account for the fact that people value present goods (or harms) more highly than future ones.

Currently set at $ 36 per ton of carbon dioxide, the metric is produced using a complex, and contentious, set of models estimating a host of future costs to society related to rising temperatures and seas, then using a longstanding economic tool, a discount rate, to gauge how much it is worth today to limit those harms generations hence.

The three scenarios developed are Modern Jazz, which represents a «digitally disrupted,» innovative, and market - driven world, Unfinished Symphony, a world in which more «intelligent» and sustainable economic growth models emerge as the world drives to a low carbon future, and a more fragmented scenario called Hard Rock, which explores the consequences of weaker and unsustainable economic growth with inward - looking policies.

Then, by using climate models to project future temperatures, the researchers were able to estimate economic growth over the rest of the century if these historical patterns hold true.

All this fiction about creating a better future through government compulsion ignores the lesson of the Soviet Union economic model.

It appears that Pruitt instructed the EPA career staff to make assumptions grossly unfavorable to the CPP in order to calculate the largest possible negative economic impact; for example, the RIA models scenarios that minimize the CPP's reductions in unhealthy air pollutants, inflate the costs of compliance, only count the climate benefits of CO2 reductions in the US, and greatly discount the future benefits of lower global temperatures.

People who've been following the debate about global warming closely will be aware that the economic modelling used in projections of future climate change by the IPCC has been severely criticised by former Australian Statistician Ian Castles and former OECD chief economist David Henderson.

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

Most economic models, including those used to produce projections of future greenhouse gas emissions, are not capable of modeling abrupt changes such as these.

As the interpretation of infinity in economic climate models is essentially a debate about how to deal with the threat of extinction, Mr Weitzman's argument depends heavily on a judgement about the value of life... A lack of reliable data exacerbates the profound methodological and philosophical difficulties faced by climate change economists... The United Nations conference in Paris this December offers a chance to take appropriate steps to protect future generations from this risk... http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/07/climate-change (MOST COMMENTING ARE NOT AT ALL IMPRESSED)

Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul said, «Modeled after the wildly successful 43 North business plan competition, 76West is another example of creative economic development strategies spurring start - ups in the industries of the future.

We know from our analysis of climate change, from the accelerating deterioration of the economy's ecological supports, and from our projections of future resource use that the western economic model — the fossil - fuel - based, automobile - centered, throwaway economy — will not last much longer.

The most important uncertainty, he says, concerns the reliability of economic models used to forecast the future.

It is about how the small group of committed entrepreneurs introduced in Small is Possible managed to keep their dream alive and thriving through the economic recession, emerging with a model of what a sustainable local economy might look like in a post carbon future.

Using assumptions about future population, economic growth, trading conditions and technological progress, the trade model estimated plausible prices of food commodities on the international market given supply as defined by the production estimates.

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«The point of the paper is to show a broad range of hypotheticals and use the model to demonstrate the economic impact, not to read tea leaves and try to precisely forecast future REC prices,» Divounguy said when asked about the basis for those assumptions.

The authors say a better understanding of the climate impact of fire will enable scientists develop models to more accurately forecast future future change — important given the rising economic toll from uncontrolled burning.

Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (CAVT) is a spreadsheet - based database and model that analyzes the future economic viability of coal units.

identifying how to integrate questions of public confidence into techno - economic models and scenarios charting Canada's energy future;

For one thing, as I've said before, the economic models from which IPCC and others draw these numbers are just this side of wild guesses, based on assumptions about economic growth, resource prices, and technological development decades in the future.

Second, our approach explicitly models the impact of future climate change on economic production.

And, as you're trying to predict future greenhouse gas emissions, you have to start throwing economic assumptions into the models on top of the physical assumptions you threw in for question 2.

Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (CAVT) is a spreadsheet - based database and model that determines the future economic viability of coal units.

For the measures with wider deviations, many factors contribute to differences between the AEO Reference case projections and realized outcomes, but two primary contributors are the initial projections of future oil prices and overall economic activity that are used in NEMS.5 These projections can greatly influence the other projections made by the model, which is why each recent AEO includes alternative cases exploring differences in economic growth (Low and High Economic Growth cases) and in oil prices (Low and High Oil Priceeconomic activity that are used in NEMS.5 These projections can greatly influence the other projections made by the model, which is why each recent AEO includes alternative cases exploring differences in economic growth (Low and High Economic Growth cases) and in oil prices (Low and High Oil Priceeconomic growth (Low and High Economic Growth cases) and in oil prices (Low and High Oil PriceEconomic Growth cases) and in oil prices (Low and High Oil Price cases).

The SCC is a loosey - goosey computer model result that attempts to determine the present value of future damages that result from climate change caused by pernicious economic activity.

Yet, model projections of future global warming vary, because of differing estimates of population growth, economic activity, greenhouse gas emission rates, changes in atmospheric particulate concentrations and their effects, and also because of uncertainties in climate models.