Sentences with phrase «economic rationale for»

Third, as noted above, the cable bundle, like streaming, has its own economic rationale for not just programmers and cable providers but also customers.

While many legal and practical arguments against separation have been effectively deployed, many incumbent operators have struggled to articulate their economic rationale for vertical integration.

As will be outlined in this paper, the need for «incentives to codify and disclose» TK is a strong economic rationale for protecting it.

One might go all the way back to the 1980s when Richard Posner and William Landes supplied a pretty clear free - market economic rationale for the tort system in their book, The Economic Structure of Tort Law.

Prof. Yohe presented on the economic rationale for carbon pricing at the Wesleyan «Pricing Carbon» Conference in Nov. 2010, and was profiled on this point in Yale 360 in Dec. 2008.

So the economic rationale for paying a FiT premium above market rates to achieve dynamic efficiency is no longer warranted.

And, despite the disappearance of the forward surpluses that were to pay for them, and of any possible economic rationale for aiding high income earners, the government is still promising to proceed with the tax cuts promised in the utterly different world of 2007.

There are however still new projects pursued mainly by state - owned companies that care less about the economic rationale for these projects,» said Lauri Myllyvirta, Greenpeace clean air campaigner.

By pointing out how AGW is a tragedy of the commons, you incisively exposed the economic rationale for AGW denial, and made it ineluctably clear that AGW mitigation is a public good requiring government intervention in the market.

DB plans remain the norm in the public education sector, however, despite the fiscal problems and the weak economic rationale for mobile professionals like teachers, many of whom move out of state or out of the profession and lose much of their accumulated benefits.

There is a clear economic rationale for deferred compensation, since it allows employers to recoup the investments made in hiring and training skilled employees, such as teachers.

There is no economic rationale for favoring one year of work over another in this way.

«There is an economic rationale for taxes when consumption of the good imposes negative externalities, and obesity costs taxpayers billions each year in medical care costs in the U.S.,» Cawley said.

But to the extent such a tax helps internalize the external costs, there is an economic rationale for it.»

A sober analysis needs to be undertaken to establish the economic rationale for or against APD.

A further report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, also funded by the RAC Foundation, published in May 2012, said the economic rationale for road pricing was «compelling» and recommended a move to a widespread system of road pricing.

They also highlight the economic rationale for such a change: «Canadian Pacific is 70 % the size of Canadian National, yet has an enterprise value 40 % as large, due to its inferior profitability and asset utilization.»

In the current fiscal circumstances, there is absolutely no economic rationale for a balanced budget.

Although there is no economic rationale for a fixed date to eliminate the deficit, there may be a cabinet management rationale.

But there's basically no economic rationale for giving them an extra leg up.

There are a number of economic rationales for this trend.

Reinhardt, F., 1999: Market failure and the environmental policies of firms, economic rationales for «beyond compliance» behavior.

Not exact matches

The rationale was that stimulus spending should get in and out of the economic bloodstream pretty quickly, so you need to find «shovel - ready» infrastructure projects that don't go on for too long.

I recently posted a «letter to the Fed» wherein I questioned the rationale for raising interest rates given a variety of economic developments that I argued offer no compelling reasons to tap the brakes on growth.

Since the House leadership hasn't provided any rationale why these provisions would be temporary and the economic case for temporary expensing in the current economic environment is quite small, it seems likely that the expiration date is intended to artifically reduce the cost of this bill and set up a costly extension later.

For many years now the federal government has been paying farmers not to produce foodstuffs, while millions, in this country and abroad, go hungry, The rationale, once again, is economic necessity: prices and profits must be maintained at a level sufficient to stimulate production.

The rationale for the Charter is apocalyptic: «The prevailing development patterns in both the South and the North are leading the Planet to an economic, social, and environmental crisis which threatens the existence of human life and the integrity of Nature.»

Moreover, religious teachings that warn believers against such temptations as greed and envy provide a strong rationale for believing that it is these moral failings more than anything else to which poverty and economic injustice must be attributed.

U.S. Advocates Human & Property Rights Solely for Those Nations Who Have the Power to Demand Them Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, took note this morning of the Obama Administration's perverse rationale regarding the compensation of the poorer nations bearing the earliest and worst effects of climate change, as spelled...

Aside from economic and cultural ties, part of the Serbian rationale for a close relationship with Russia and fraught one with the EU is the contested status of Kosovo.

Can a party whose rationale for existing is to grow progressive economic movements throughout the country «where politicians are held accountable to working people, instead of big - money backers» really work for, endorse, and host on its line one of the greatest threats to its agenda within the Democratic Party?

Tukur who spoke to the Economic Confidential in his office in Kaduna queried the rationale for such disbursement labelling it as illegal.

With Labour trailing the Tories by twenty points on the economy and discontent on the left and right of the party with Labour's economic offer, the rationale for action was obvious.

This creates the political justification for sharpened rhetoric on equality, while the policy rationale is contained in counteracting the tendencies to inequality involved with both globalisation and technological change, the great drivers of economic transformation in our times.

The next sentence appears to offer a rationale for a higher level of support: «The Committee believes that strategic investments in the physical science areas are vitally important for the United States to remain the global leader in innovation, productivity, economic growth, and good - paying jobs.»

Having studied under - graduate political science at the University of Iowa, but without graduating, Version # 2 now also accepts the need to address and manage climate change impacts... and risks and accepts also the economic rationale, indeed necessity, for doing so now, rather than putting it off until... forever... as he long had argued for.

The rationale behind such a strategy is that over the long - term gold can provide a decent hedge against inflation and offer some protection for your portfolio in turbulent economic and political times.

For several years, they have examined the rationale upon which economic actions are described and represented, and how the logic of economy has come to infiltrate the most intimate aspects of life.

Following stock - market gyrations is like tracking your biorhythm — an indicator of volatility, psychological and economic, it becomes a rationale for the way people subsequently behave, and no one is exempt.

But a quick summary of some of my thoughts: I think a case can be made for some combination of equal per - capita payback and tax reduction, but the rationale for this must be that this somehow compensates for the costs of global warming or adaptation to that; as much of this occurs in the future (with different people), this is private sector economic investment to boost the economy now so that it may make itself more robust in the future -LRB-?).

Ultimately, the potentiality of a food crisis could be an economic, humanitarian, and geopolitical rationale for turning to climate engineering.

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.

IHS CERA's new environmental assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline and pipeline - related oil sands development sends a pretty clear message to President Obama as he decides whether to approve the full project's construction: There's not a climate rationale for rejecting the pipeline — and along with it, tens of thousands of U.S. jobs, economic uplift and greater energy security.

The economic principle is that there is some rationale for supporting sunrise industries — but the sun always sets and this is the problem for solar.

See chapter 9 of my early 2012 ebook Gaia's Limits for a much longer and more detailed rationale based on chapters 5 - 8, plus working out general economic «least harm» consequences if the fuel tax increase is ramped over time.

The rationale for green growth and clean development has mostly been presented as a win - win situation for the environment and for economic development.

The formulation of good advice to SRLs and to the court systems accommodating them will require the surfacing and examination of the economic forces in law, the rationale for the legal system's infrastructure, and really, an examination of its very essence — which may not be pretty.

• Lords Sumption and Lloyd - Jones provide an illuminating overview of the economic torts in general and the rationale for the unlawful means conspiracy tort in particular.

The rationale for the doctrine is not economic.

But when the rationale for copyright protection is no longer utilitarian... when the economic incentive is absent... when the purpose of a pamphlet, help guide, research study, infographic, data set, website, etc. is so clearly to be shared widely, freely and liberally... then it's strange to have warnings that hoard copyright.