Sentences with phrase «of economic rationales»

There are a number of economic rationales for this trend.

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.

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.»

It's trade finance that provides the economic rationale to do a lot of these things: it happens to be aligned with the health benefits and the social impact of keeping blood diamonds out of the supply chain, but if the money wasn't there, I don't think there'd be an ability to do it,» he says.

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.»

The sect advocated total economic liberalism with no reserves or borders, in other words a reactionary utopia of complete submission of societies to the exclusive unilateral logic of capital, their «adjustment» — in all its dimensions, political and social — to the sole rationale of the project.

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.

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.

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?

So despite, the mandatory nature of this plan, in tough economic times I understand the rationale behind it.

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.»

«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.

Studies of environmental policies - economic rationale, efficiency, and equity effects.

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.

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

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.

This policy brief explores the economic rationale behind the life - cycle approach and the advantages and limitations of life - cycle funds.

While the three rationales may differ in the degree of their economic «rationality,» hopefully there's more to life than maximizing a utility function.

«A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value, in economic, social, cultural or other contexts.»

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.

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.

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 proponents of the pipeline did not answer legitimate questions about their economic rationale posed, among many others, by Robyn Allen.

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.

To the extent that an economic rationale lies behind the U.S. rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, it comes from estimates that the U.S. will bear a disproportionate share of the burden of adjustment and that the costs to the U.S. of the Kyoto Protocol far outweigh the benefits.

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.

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

Of course there was and still is an economic rationale.

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.

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 Teconomic rationale for the tort system in their book, The Economic Structure of TEconomic Structure of Tort Law.

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.

The rationale of social and economic development and land rights underlies a number of statutes.

An individualist emphasis on replacing welfare disadvantage with economic independence, as problems of corporate governance within Indigenous community organizations become the rationale for a shift to individual and family rights.

«Economic growth should be stronger the second half of this year, averaging approximately 3.0 percent, as our rationale for a positive impulse from the private sector has not changed.