Edward Tenner Unintended consequences

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

ISLAMABAD Large events sometimes have unintended strategic consequences.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Europe s tragedy is not the result of an evil plot, but stems, rather, from a lack of coherent policies. As in ancient Greek tragedies, misconceptions and a sheer lack of understanding have had unintended but fateful consequences.

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.

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

ISLAMABAD Large events sometimes have unintended strategic consequences. This is turning out to be the case following the killing of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad, a military dominated town near Islamabad, Pakistan s capital.

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

Self serving as it may seem, this viewpoint is not without some merit. As economies become intertwined, decisions taken in one part of the world reverberate in other parts, often producing unintended consequences.

Given North Korea s continued potential for military mischief and the fluid state of security in Asia in the wake of China s rise, such tactics could have serious, if unintended, consequences.

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.

So I can empathize with the wish or intention to become somewhat invisible in order to avoid undesirable 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.

Even well intentioned social policies can have unwelcome consequences.

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

The unstable situation in Iraq is causing undesirable ripples all over the world.

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.

Jnoubiyeh mentions the government's decisions as violations that will lead to undesired repercussions

Revenge has consequences.

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.

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