I protest in the name of commonsense.

There's something to say about their commonsense attitude.

Here are seven commonsense principles of global economic governance that they might agree on.

But I will not hesitate to create or enforce commonsense safeguards to protect the American people.

In a concession to commonsense, they concede that people may make mistakes and, to that extent, a stimulus may be beneficial.

Here are seven commonsense principles of global economic governance that they might agree on. (I discuss them in more detail in my new book, The Globalization Paradox.)

But freedom of expression worldwide received a boost and Britain s reputation for commonsense was somewhat restored in April, when Parliament adopted legislation revising the country s libel law.

That fits with the commonsense idea that if people only do good in public, they may be motivated by a desire to gain a reputation for generosity.

Moreover, what seem like obvious, commonsense policy solutions all too often have unintended consequences, because a policy s targets are not passive objects, as in physics, but active agents who react in unpredictable ways.

Research projects that attempt to build a complete knowledge base of commonsense knowledge (e.g., Cyc) require enormous amounts of laborious ontological engineering they must be built, by hand, one complicated concept at a time.

The study proceeds from the commonsense assumption that it is worth finding out what went right in cases where mining has contributed to rapid growth and poverty reduction and where conflicts over the distribution of revenue have been avoided. How do the countries where this happened differ from others? What did the governments do that was different?