One problem, says Mr Kuran, is that religiously-inspired institutions change more slowly than religious dogma.
The nature of work will change, jobs will change, organizational structures will change, institutions will change, and economies will change.
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Economic revolutions require institutions to change and maybe make history, because if they stick to the status quo they soon become history.
We're not going to have the money to do that ourselves, but I hope that we can help get the institutions to change.
With power passing downward to the devolved parliaments, and upward to the European Union, it is inevitable that Britain's central political institutions will change as well.
Why spend so much energy trying to change institutions that are stuck in the past?
The technology available today to both students and institutions can fundamentally change the way that academia is run.
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The institutions see the change as the removal of what they say is an anomaly and that having "college" in their titles confuses people, especially internationally.
The point is that our limited knowledge and inability to effectively coordinate and apply that knowledge make it impossible to rely on powerful institutions to implement change.
Although the outside world may see headlines about fancy projects such as the building of new institutions, the change to science required in Arab countries is not about bricks-and-mortar improvement but about building intellectual capacity.
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This meant that when panic selling by some troubled institutions to raise capital drove the value of mortgage related securities to virtually zero, all institutions had to change their books to reflect this minimal market value of the securities.
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Though democratic politicians and economic reformers can agree on the need for more efficient and accountable institutions, in practice change is often resisted.
Dr Stephen Hammer is co-director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network, a consortium of academics and institutions dedicated to the analysis of climate change mitigation, and an adviser to New York City's Energy Policy Taskforce.
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Of the Japanese institutions, a particularly noteworthy change is holdings by life insurance companies .
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Such a major change in our institutions must be passed with bipartisan support.
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Individual institutions that want companies to change policy have to spend time and money in negotiations that may not be justified by the potential gains.
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Slovenia's sleepy and inward-looking public institutions are certainly ripe for change.
Virtually all of our most prestigious scientific and academic institutions have stated that climate change is happening and that human activities are the driving cause of this change.
Fannie and Freddie are the financial institutions with the most need for change and the reform bill contains no serious overhaul for them.
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Mr Hutchinson said the Policing Board and Police Ombudsman had diligently performed their roles and been "pivotal in supporting change and as important institutions of governance and accountability".
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We now need to focus on specific governance issues required for a successful Copenhagen deal -- such as ensuring balanced, equitable representation for countries in the institutions that provide resources for climate change.
But first he wants to change Colombia's political institutions, and especially the corruption, vote-buying and cosseted excess of its politicians.
He concedes that Brazil does not agree with the other big emerging powers on everything, but they do share an interest in trying to change the way that international institutions and the world economy are run.
Asia's consumers are readier for a culture change than are its banks and institutions.
" He expects other institutions to "act like intelligent owners and change things in a big way.
Politics, institutions and ways of behaviour also need to change.
Good replicative scale of an idea depends on two things: the (demonstrated) local effectiveness of an idea, and the strength of institutions that can implement it at scale and change policies accordingly.
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Before then the ambitious caretaker, who is Ecuador's seventh president in eight years, wants to change many of his country's institutions.
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