Edward Tenner Unintended consequences

What are the causes? Well, it's an unintended consequence.

Human error One of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to the loss of any aircraft or vessel is human error.

Unfortunately, this often results in inadvertent harm.

Ninth, QE and other unconventional monetary policies can have serious unintended consequences.

It is, after all, the human endeavor most associated with unintended consequences.

Every new invention changes the world in ways both intentional and unexpected. Historian Edward Tenner tells stories that illustrate the under appreciated gap between our ability to innovate and our ability to foresee the consequences.

ISLAMABAD Large events sometimes have unintended strategic consequences.

Syria may well become a second Iraq, not by design but as an unintended consequence of current policy.

In engineering, compensation is planning for side effects or other unintended issues in a design.

That did not mean that support tasks were no longer needed on the contrary, a whole new range of demands had emerged.

It is important to note that these were unintended consequences of basically sensible policy decisions.

One would have thought that torture was the result of blunders or unintentional excesses committed on the spur of the moment.

If they believe that this has unintended consequences, they should approach the Committee for guidance.

The unusual monetary policy activism of the last few years risks causing collateral damage and producing unintended consequences.

These illicit activities are not intended, but they increase the income of peasants, transporters, builders, and businessmen.

Invading Iraq was not. It was Bush's unintended gift to bin Laden.

Palin s nomination, however, could have an unintended consequence on the gender views of social conservatives.

As in ancient Greek tragedies, misconceptions and a sheer lack of understanding have had unintended but fateful consequences.

Limiting or even banning speculation in futures markets might therefore be costly and have unintended consequences.

How odd of Mao s heirs, however accidentally, to resurrect this forsaken Catholic ideology.

This lack of contextual clarity has led to excessively conservative interpretations of the regulations and thus to the creation of unintended barriers to financial inclusion.

The formal rejection of the Iran EU nuclear agreement in February 2005 was an unintended gift to Iran s hardliners, led by Ahmadinejad.

Thus, the attempt to protect workers with rigid labor laws may have the unintended consequence of generating too few protected jobs.

Obvious, unconventional measures, if not carefully monitored, might have the unintended consequence of creating an abnormally benign financial environment for markets, commercial banks, and sovereigns.

Translating CO2 into an illogical and inefficient measure of forest cover seems intended mainly to ensure that an alarming message results.

The most common among them are the indirect (and often unintended) consequences of the bailouts that governments mounted as a consequence of the crisis.

And they have repeatedly cautioned that the longer they remain in their current position, the greater the risk that their good work will be associated with mounting collateral damage and unintended consequences.

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During the same period, the Security Council continued its recent practice of imposing targeted sanctions measures that help to minimize unintended economic problems for States.

As economies become intertwined, decisions taken in one part of the world reverberate in other parts, often producing unintended consequences.

Tuchman describes how a series of individual decisions, all of which seemed sound when considered in isolation, had the unintended consequence of leading Europe into World War I.

In connection with draft resolution II, the secretariat of the Third Committee has informed us that there were some inadvertent omissions to the list of sponsors contained in the report of the Committee. A corrigendum will be issued in due course.

Efforts are still insufficient to speed up the process of returns.

He added that stockpile management was critical during the final stages of phase out to use all CFC stockpiles that met quality requirements and to avoid unnecessary production of new CFCs, and advocated flexible use of existing stock which would help manufacturers ensure that they had fully depleted stockpiles at the time of phase out.

The message, then, for me, about unintended consequences is chaos happens let's make better use of it.

This step was necessary, but it produced unintended adverse consequences many other countries, from Eastern Europe to Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, could not offer similarly convincing guarantees.

This is likely to be a long drawn out and expensive process with an uncertain outcome.

World Bank (2004a). Strengthening the foundations for growth and private sector development investment climate and infrastructure development.

His delegation therefore wished to reiterate its concern that the proposed amendments to the Convention were contrary to the letter and spirit of the NPT, which might have undesirable or unintended consequences for the non proliferation and disarmament regime as a whole.

But another analogy may be more suitable. Syria may well become a second Iraq, not by design but as an unintended consequence of current policy.

Finally, the idea is impracticable.

That is an intricate operation and success is far from assured.

However, the present topic is certainly not devoid of practical significance.

Of course, this was the intended outcome under Basri's watch, and his successors under Mohammed VI's reign have only had to fine tune things a bit.