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However, to come full circle, the industry creates and markets products designed to appeal to investor desires, rational and irrational.
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The global economy is a complex system and is a function of millions of individual actors making decisions for both rational and irrational reasons.
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Thus, preventive law sacrifices the rational and responsible to the irrational and irresponsible.
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The incentives may be smaller than in real-world decisions: so rational choices may be inadequately rewarded and irrational ones inadequately punished.
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Social Security, and the entitlement state more broadly, institutes a basic injustice: the rational and productive are sacrificed in the name of the irrational.
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It also urges Pyongyang to have a "rational view" of the new resolution and refrain from "irrational moves" that may escalate tensions, but says other parties are also responsible for heightening tensions.
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Revenue Cycle Management (RCM): RCM is fundamentally about how one gets as big of a bill out as fast as possible and then get paid the maximum amount a rational response to an irrational reimbursement scheme.
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Behaviorists reject the classic economic theory of human beings as ultra-rational self-interested actors and, drawing on psychology, examine the causes of seemingly irrational economic choices, such as not taking advantage of money offered in an employer-provided retirement plan or giving away more money to charity than can be explained by purely selfish motives.
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As we become more emotionally dependent and expressive in the age of irrational economics, we need a far more rational polity, one that bows to reason rather than pure power or myth making.
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They conjure up new assumptions and clever twists on old ones to prove that seemingly irrational phenomena are, after all, quite rational.
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