This insight is part of the basis of "prospect theory, " one branch of behavioral economics.
Game theory was the basis of the principle of mutually assured destruction developed by American strategists during the cold war.
Its intelligence about the threats posed by terrorists particularly those who rationalize their lethal actions on the basis of a perverse theory of Islamic supremacism is second to none.
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The State assumes the right of eminent domain over its territorial basis, where by every landholder becomes in theory a tenant of the State.
She does not decide cases on the basis of high or fancy theory - though she's smart enough to do any of that - but she just decides a case before her on the basis of what makes sense in that case.
This is the basis of the Balassa-Samuelson theory which holds that average prices will be higher in countries with higher productivity (ie, high GDP per head), because higher wages will push up prices in labour-intensive goods and services.
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Describing the Civil Rights Movement without mentioning Jim Crow is like writing about the atrocities committed by the German army in the Second World War and not mentioning Nazi race theory: it leaves out the primary ideological basis of the injustice being described.
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Laws that distinguish between individuals on the basis of race are (at least in theory) almost impossible to justify, because the Supreme Court has held that they are subject to "strict scrutiny, " the most forbidding standard of review.
Unfortunately, there is no evident basis for assuming that the esoteric, and in any event dubious, theory of mutual vulnerability will serve to deter emerging threats like that posed by Iraqi-sponsored terrorists armed with Mr. Hussein's chemical weapons.
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Although this must give some badge of quality to the concept of executive coaching it does also raise the worry that its real basis is academic theory rather than hard, practical ideas that can be used in the day-to-day workplace.
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Maybe all of the elements of this story just coincidentally fit together in a way to create a terrific conspiracy theory that has no basis in reality.
In a scathing report, he concluded that investigators in the Willingham case had no scientific basis for claiming that the fire was arson, ignored evidence that contradicted their theory, had no comprehension of flashover and fire dynamics, relied on discredited folklore, and failed to eliminate potential accidental or alternative causes of the fire.
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