But the financial interests involved tend to distort the process by creating incentives to overestimate the benefits of new drugs, underestimate the risks, and, above all, boost prescriptions.

The trauma caused by this disaster cannot be overestimated.

But the estimates of wealth accumulation in recent years in the rich world are biased upward too.

But to make too much of them in cases such as those of Merah or Breivik can be misleading.

It would be difficult to overestimate the role of the Agency in ensuring that balance.

Anyway, the first step has been taken and its importance cannot be overestimated.

When developing nations are forced into overvalued currencies, entrepreneurship and investment in those activities are depressed.

He said, Love consists of overestimating the differences between one woman and another.

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The importance of education and skills training as a key element of protection therefore cannot be overstated.

NAIROBI The science of climate change has been on the defensive in recent weeks, owing to an error that dramatically overstated the rate at which the Himalayan glaciers could disappear.

Third, highly intelligent economists, puzzled by the duration of the overvaluation, evolve theories of why things are different this time, and why this time the overvaluation is perhaps sustainable after all.

The exponential increase in international trade had led to a corresponding increase in commercial disputes and, in that connection, the importance of arbitration as a means of resolving international commercial disputes could not be overemphasized.

Even so, the macroeconomic logic that large current account deficits signal that currencies are overvalued continues to escape the world s international financial investors and speculators.

Not surprisingly, Hong Kong s oligopoly of property tycoons opposed changing the peg despite the currency s gross overvalue at the time.

Their long term negative social, economic and environmental effects cannot be overestimated, especially in relation to their impact on vulnerable groups in developing countries, including small islands.

The real exchange rate is of paramount importance here, as it determines the competitiveness and profitability of modern tradable activities. When developing nations are forced into overvalued currencies, entrepreneurship and investment in those activities are depressed. 160

The significance of this decision cannot be overemphasized.

But the estimates of wealth accumulation in recent years in the rich world are biased upward too. Empirical studies by earth scientists have revealed all too often that the capacity of natural systems to absorb disturbances is not unlimited.

Even in the guarantee model there can be such implicit government over payment (or an over guarantee that is not properly priced by the fees that the government receives).

But too little taxation can do the same.

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On that count, Asia tends to be a status quo continent, while Europe is a revisionist one.

Green GDP does include uncounted losses, so it avoids the problem of overestimating our wealth, but it fails to account for the potentially much larger benefits of innovation.

He warned against the risk of overestimating the magnitude of preference erosion for LDCs and noted that the adverse impact of erosion was being felt equally severely by several non LDCs. The most fundamental problems faced by LDCs did not directly relate to the issue of preference erosion.

Since the true value of long term assets is so hard to estimate, it is human nature to focus on the rate of increase in their observed prices, and to allow one s attention to become fixated on these assets just as their value is increasing very fast.

All of these intermediaries have costs that have to be paid by the local consumer, which flatters the national GDP statistics, because, technically speaking, all of these costs constitute value added in intermediation services.

Crazy people do crazy things, so don t overreact.

Women lean forward in their chairs, dabbing their eyes with tissues.

But, almost from the beginning and most intensely since 1971, when Time magazine published a special section entitled The New Genetics Man into Superman science and society alike have tended to overestimate the impact of genetics.

America s third mistake was to overestimate how effective conventional military power would be in dealing with the weak states and networked transnational organizations that characterize international politics, at least in the broader Middle East.

The greatest risk is that it will once again over reach and over play its hand.

The media tends to move like market sentiment.

Oil rich countries tend to save a lot. Countries with serious internal crises or conflicts tend to save little.

Banning such materials has an aesthetic appeal, to be sure, and public figures who preach violence should always be condemned. Hate speech and violent ideology are not irrelevant.

In a survey that I conducted immediately after the 1987 crash, I found that the biggest concern expressed by individual and institutional investors in the US was essentially that the stock market had been overpriced.

Policy as a whole over the entire euro zone is too deflationary.

The social problems of the day tend to be more and more complicated.

With prices falling, the imperative to act inevitably tends to recede.

This tended to keep the numbers printed and sold, low.

But overall, developing countries tend to invest primarily in their own region.

Eagerness to overcome this guilt might even have prompted some people to exaggerate Israeli aggression.

Statistical categories often tend to become social categories.

But high expectations, both domestically and internationally, can lead to huge disappointments.