Sentences with phrase «large economic incentives»

In the case of Wills, this is simply a matter of long standing tradition with the force of law, and there is no real solid substantive reason that it should be treated otherwise, other than the difficulty of proving which Will was real and which was the last one when the author is dead and can't clear up that point, and lots of people have large economic incentives to lie about the question.

Businesses, for instance, have large economic incentives to exploit or develop cheap land — land which could provide a protective barrier from storm surge or which could be a flood plain that would put a proposed residential area at future risk.

Not exact matches

A drawback of being a small business owner is that the budget for such quality, such as employee incentives and benefits, is not as plentiful as it is for a larger company (especially in the economic climate we are living in today).

A large part of the Dollar's strength (beyond «just» the data) post - the election has been based upon this, where if the corporate tax rate were cut to say 20 %, the Dollar would by economic theory have to then appreciate 20 % (and of course too, an additional «tax factor» driving the USD bull - thesis is that a meaningful chunk of $ 2.5 T of profits held overseas by US corporates would be repatriated following a «business friendly» incentive package / one - time cut to the repatriation tax to say 8 - 10 %).

While China succeeded in reigning in this growth, India's half hearted policies which failed to provide promised incentives turned their people against family planning programs, and poor economic plans left traditional structures that led people to have large families.

The $ 10 billion investment by Foxconn will also be offset by $ 3 billion in government incentives, according to Walker, who called the Foxconn deal one of the largest economic development projects.

The problem is that large emitters such as power stations and steel or cement works have no economic incentive to capture and bury their waste gases.

's most recent post (November 25, 2013) about the non-peer-reviewed National Bureau of Economic Research's DC IMPACT study, another recently published study albeit this time in the Journal of Labor Economics, a top - field peer - reviewed journal, found no impact of incentives in New York City's (NYC) public schools given its large - scale multimillion program.

And a convoluted tale it is, involving the country's wealth of natural resources (coal, iron, copper and water for powering machines and transporting goods), the comparatively high literacy rate that enabled common folk to educate themselves in science and technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned out.

We know how to do all of these things, but the economic incentives are currently lacking to get them done on a large scale.

The economic incentive to shut down a newly built coal power plant once it is up and running would have to be huge and to my knowledge the replacement «green» technology either does not exist or does not offer the Chinese a large enough incentive to switch.

-- Reset economic incentives so that innovation is driven by wider societal interests and reaches the large proportion of the global population that is currently not benefitting from these innovations.

You know a lot of focus on economic incentives for the greenies gets thrown around, but there is a consistent lack of skepticism for all the (much larger) groups benefiting from the status quo.

The environmental threats and economic costs of continued reliance on fossil fuel technologies are sufficiently urgent to warrant substantially larger public support in the form of private - sector R&D incentives and a refocusing of effort by the national energy laboratories on the development and diffusion of alternative energy technologies.

If the covered lagoon method (pictured) proves to be globally valuable for business, the upshot is a large scale incentive to prevent lagoon flooding or leakage, and the resulting loss of raw material (the poop) needed profit from a waste that, if not carefully retained to extract economic value, offends neighbors, is a potential disease vector (for Avian flu for example) and poses an ecological hazard to downstream waters.

When a large group of individuals has been wronged or harmed, but no one person has enough economic incentive to bring suit on his or her own, class action litigation is useful.

Their are real economic incentive issues when it comes to the collective bargaining power of lobbyists and large business entities, public common spaces like parks and monuments, and natural monopolies.

The same blockchain technology as in Bitcoin and other systems is used as the base, and the security of the computation is guaranteed by the same kinds of cryptography and economic incentives, but the ability to execute code opens to developers a much larger world of possibilities.

These networks evolve slowly because of their governance structure, but are displaying a significant ability to coordinate large numbers of people and organizations by using economic incentives.