Sentences with phrase «on economic theory»

«A lot of the retailers don't want to bet on an economic theory that may or may not play out,» said Scot Ciccarelli, an analyst for RBC Capital Markets.

Justice Thomas in his dissent, joined by Justice Kennedy, characterized Basic as a «judicially invented doctrine based on an economic theory adopted to ease the burden on plaintiffs bringing claims under an implied cause of action» while highlighting the dissent of Justices White and O'Connor in Basic.

Dr. Michael Tretheway, an expert on economic theory who gave evidence respecting whether a 1P1F policy would impose any competitive disadvantage on the carriers; and

Out of real - world evidence, Wagner falls back on economic theory.»

But that is a very big gamble, not something we can confidently predict based on economic theory.

The argument hinges on an economic theory called Jevons» Paradox.In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons wrote a book called The Coal Question.

Meanwhile, embedded in the dialogue are about 20 important contemporary art exhibition titles, aesthetic philosophical quotes, as well as titles of books on economic theory.

One reader asked me: David do you have a Top 10 book list on Economic Theory for beginners?

I have five news compendia posts coming on Economic Theory, Macroeconomics, Speculation, Derivatives (yes, Bear, subprime, and more), and Miscellaneous (the grab bag).

«He has written numerous books on economic theory and practice and he remains a prolific writer in national magazines and newspapers on a broad range of subjects including health policy, economic management, taxation and public spending, transport, pensions, and e-government.

Thanks, Eric G. I'd love to pick your brainz on economic theory, but this isn't quite the place for that.

How such theory is formulated is important to Christians, but this essay is focused on economic theory and the consequences of our having transferred our allegiance from political theory to economic theory.

Richard Cantillon was an Irishman whose respected treatise, «An Essay on Economic Theory,» was first published posthumously in 1755.

A practical and precise thinker, Jaggi has built a career based on the economic theory he learned at Wilfrid Laurier University.

We followed up with Stiglitz after the Davos panel, and he told us that Friedman's assertion «was not based on any economic theory.»

Although in the strictest sense I would say that both Romney and Ryan are more interested in worshiping Mammon than the Christian God, based on their economic theories.

Roberts in a podcast elaborates on the economic theories of Adam Smith and David Ricardo to explain how specialization and trade creates wealth and how radical self - sufficiency leads to poverty.

Not exact matches

Qualcomm vigorously refuted the premise of the FTC's claims against it, saying that «the complaint is based on a flawed legal theory, a lack of economic support and significant misconceptions about the mobile technology industry.»

Conventional economic theory suggests that low unemployment should ultimately lead to upward pressure on wages - but there has been scant evidence of this during the latest squeeze on household finances.

Based on Gordon's interpretation of the Kondratieff theory, the current global forecast calls for a long, cold economic winter with a 100 % probability of short - term total chaos.

«The theory is that if new industries that are not competitive are subsidized they will eventually mature and be able to function on their own,» said University of Guelph economist Glenn Fox at a conference last June, citing studies suggesting clean energy policies in Denmark, Germany and Spain are a drag on economic growth.

In modern economic science, regressions of wage growth on tax rates can not be understood as causal without a theory of the level of tax rates.

This monetarist theory has guided Russian economic reform (and its quick bankruptcy) under Yeltsin and his oligarchy, as well as Chile's privatization (and early bankruptcy) under Gen. Pinochet, and the austerity programs (and subsequent bankruptcies and national resource sell offs) imposed by the IMF on third world debtor countries.

The collapse of the global economic - political paradigm that was fostered and nurtured by neo-classical economic theories built on childish abstracts which failed to embrace the physical and mathematical realities of existence defined by universal laws of matter and energy.

Economic pundits arguing that the Canadian dollar is overvalued often base their view on the theory of purchasing power parity (PPP), which predicts that international trade eventually leads exchange rates to adjust until a typical basket of consumer goods and services in Canada costs the same as in other countries.

Some Prefatory Remarks to the N.Y.U. Real Estate Institute discussion, Oct. 25, 2001 Economic theory focuses on labor and capital, yet the largest category of tangible assets is not industrial plant and machinery earning profits, but real estate, and its primary objective is to make capital gains.

Self - taught, his management style is based on the strict application of the principles of value management (Graham, Buffet, Peter Lynch, etc.), underpinned by a deep understanding of the Austrian theory of economic cycles.

Economic theory that predicts harmful market failures due to the information asymmetries that are present when ordinary investors rely on advisers who are far more expert than them, but highly conflicted

It sprouted as a theory from National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) data on economic cycles dating back Economic Research (NBER) data on economic cycles dating back economic cycles dating back to 1854.

It is generally believed by those unfamiliar with economic theory that credit expansion and an increase in the quantity of money in circulation are efficacious means for lowering the rate of interest permanently below the height it would attain on a non-manipulated capital and loan market.

One reason why it is so important to describe real estate behavior in terms of economic theory is that a rising proportion of the economy's industrial investors are behaving more like real estate investors than like the textbook models based on manufacturing.

Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is an economic theory that estimates the amount of adjustment needed on the exchange rate between countries in order for the exchange to be equivalent to each currency's purchasing power.

Yet this isn't the first time in the present campaign that the Conservatives themselves have trespassed on traditional Bank of Canada terrain. On July 22 Joe Oliver publicly rejected the use of quantitative easing in Canada (the unconventional credit - expanding strategy that has been used successfully in the US, the UK, and now Europe) despite dimming economic projections here. Decisions about the use of QE should, in theory, be the purview of the central bank. Several economists publicly questioned Oliver's statement, noting that it throws into question the Bank's future decisions on monetary policon traditional Bank of Canada terrain. On July 22 Joe Oliver publicly rejected the use of quantitative easing in Canada (the unconventional credit - expanding strategy that has been used successfully in the US, the UK, and now Europe) despite dimming economic projections here. Decisions about the use of QE should, in theory, be the purview of the central bank. Several economists publicly questioned Oliver's statement, noting that it throws into question the Bank's future decisions on monetary policOn July 22 Joe Oliver publicly rejected the use of quantitative easing in Canada (the unconventional credit - expanding strategy that has been used successfully in the US, the UK, and now Europe) despite dimming economic projections here. Decisions about the use of QE should, in theory, be the purview of the central bank. Several economists publicly questioned Oliver's statement, noting that it throws into question the Bank's future decisions on monetary policon monetary policy.

At a Brookings conference early that year, which focused on whether the US was ready for the next recession, Clarida said that despite the fact that textbooks and economic theory suggest forward guidance should not work in practice, it, in fact, does.

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In his famous book, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,» Keynes writes, «a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic... if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.»

The bishop, who was born in Bromley, Kent, went on to write Market Whys And Human Wherefores: Thinking Again About Markets, Politics, And People about the deficiencies of economic theory.

But that power rests to a considerable extent on the support of the dominant economic theory.

The economic theory based on Homo economicus has no place in for any notion of fairness or justice.

Its political and economic theories based on this individualism are unrealistic and destructive.

Economic theory is based on a particular view of human beings.

But in my concluding comments I will return to economic theory and practice to consider the implications of my views of being and person for what should go on in economics.

It is quite apparent, on even cursory examination, that economic theory rests on metaphysical assumptions.

Laudato Si, last week's encyclical from Pope Francis, seeks to address a plethora of problems in the modern world — predominately focusing on environmental issues, distributive justice, and perceived problems with consensus developmental economic theory.

But if land in this broad sense has value as an end in itself, then the economic theory based on land as commodity can not be acceptable.

For example, some (ethical or economic) theories based on the satisfaction of preferences assume that preferences can be nonmetrically ordered (e.g., Arrow 9 - 11).

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

When one fully realizes that economic theory places no value on personal relationships or human community, one understands why the policies that follow from the theory end up weakening such relationships and community in general.

However, standard economic development theory focused on increasing productivity, that is, the amount of goods produced per hour of human labor.

We also need to make sure that he is not too well versed on foreign policy or defense strategy or economic theory.