If a rational person believes climate change is a certainty, he or she will also believe that climate policy is a rational response to manage that change.
For how can there be a rational basis for a ban that has been proven ineffective?
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Promoting public health, for example, would obviously be a rational basis for a statute banning smoking in bars, but it might not suffice to justify a statute banning smoking only in gay bars.
There is thus never a situation in which an authoritarian regime would outperform a democratic one or a situation in which citizens of a given country would have a rational preference for a less democratic government.
Two centuries before Rand arrived on the scene, Adam Smith had already written The Wealth of Nations, a powerful treatise demonstrating why self-interest offers a more secure foundation for a rational society than a selfless dedication to the common good.
The Black-Scholes equation, brainchild of economists Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, provided a rational way to price a financial contract when it still had time to run.
Yet speech codes persist in large part because university general counsels, often far more worried about the expense and bad press of a harassment lawsuit than the comparatively rare and inexpensive free speech lawsuit, have deemed it rational from a cost-benefit standpoint to censor.
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"This business is more rational than a lot of other retail sub-sectors, " says Stephanie Hoff, an analyst at Edward Jones.
The rational and worthy institutions of government require a rational underlying political philosophy, with an abiding respect for individual rights and the rule of law.
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In a rational world there would be no such thing as a nondiversified money market account.
To be moved by rational argument, a person has to be open to rational discourse.
Looking at those yields, a rational person would conclude the entire world must be in a Depression.
Most businesses, even small ones, already collect such an enormous amount of data that, even if they could find a reasonably-priced and skilled data scientist to hire, that person would quickly be overwhelmed unless there was a rational approach to distilling and translating that data, and a usable set of tools with which to do it.
This is not the fight of a die-hard, it is the wholly rational fight of a relatively small insurgency which sees warfare as the only way their communal rights can be respected.
"If you approach it from a rational approach it's insane, " said Klaus Jacob, a Columbia University professor who specializes in disaster risk management.
The reason it is impossible to found a rational economic policy purely on consumer sovereignty is that one cannot be a consumer without also being a producer.
These toys carry a simple warning message: beware, my owner has suspended rational judgement for a moment.
We don't, at the moment, have a rational reimbursement structure for health care--you may pay more for a procedure at one location and the quality of care may not be higher.
The goal of modern liberalism was the rational state, a state that completed the long-standing attempt at the rational control of nature and human life that began with Machiavelli and culminated with Hegel.
Economists need to explain, therefore, why a rational consumer would be persuaded by an ad which offers nothing but an enticing image or a good laugh.
Writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy held that a Colorado constitutional amendment forbidding local gay rights legislation lacked a rational basis because it singled out gays, but he expressly declined to establish gays as a class that needs special antidiscrimination treatment.
In a line of thought popular among German conservatives between the two World Wars, Kagan holds that liberals are dreamers who believe that nations will behave decently once they are part of a rational world order, where all are free to pursue their enlightened self-interests within a framework of internationally agreed-on rules, as promulgated by such institutions as the League of Nations and the United Nations.
Commercial property is a more rational affair, although hubris can play a part: there is nothing like a picture of a trophy property to adorn a fund manager's annual report.
As a rational, liberal-minded sort of bloke, he considers the English class structure to be a piece of antiquated and retrogressive nonsense.
That was at once a perfectly rational reading of British domestic politics, and a decision that pushed Germany into the arms of the French.
The unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon which was a failure on every rational level was a strategy concocted and championed for the better part of a decade by Yediot and its media colleagues at Israel Radio.
The unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon -- which was a failure on every rational level -- was a strategy concocted and championed for the better part of a decade by Yediot and its media colleagues at Israel Radio.
"The utilisation of sex as a classification method is rational, since it is a straight forward way to ensure that birth records in the City of New York are uniform, " lawyers for the city wrote in a court filing.
The mass re-election of Republicans in a year like 2012 can have no other rational interpretation than as a mandate for Republicans to oppose tax, regulatory, and government spending increases.
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While they may behave in a predictably rational fashion when buying gasoline or airline tickets a lower price makes them more willing to buy they get turned around when they go to Wall Street.
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