However, received wisdom and accumulated evidence suggest that doing well economically is not enough.
Romney could easily have gone much further without ever leaving the confines of received wisdom.
He sees his role partly as that of court jester, challenging the received wisdom.
Perhaps the received wisdom (conventional or unorthodox, or whatever you want to call it) needs to be revisited.
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Contrary to received wisdom, slashing the rich world's trade-distorting subsidies has a relatively small effect on poor countries.
Accenture's Mr Bedi is sceptical of the received wisdom that bigger drugs firms will lead to more successful drug discovery.
Like modern Gnostics relishing in some secret knowledge that surpasses the received wisdom of the ages, intellectuals proclaim the way forward.
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Received wisdom suggests that immigrants blend into the host society, gradually infiltrating the economy until they become socially indistinguishable from natives.
The Penrose version of cosmology stands in sharp distinction to received wisdom.
The received wisdom in Washington is that the two parties are so divided on tax that only an election can resolve the impasse.
Received wisdom has long held that the big guns of Fidesz and the Socialists would not fire on each other, for fear of retaliation.
Wilner was then a few years out of school and filled with a young man's wonder at the obtuseness of an older generation's received wisdom.
But the public indignation over the Bulger case and a series of scandals involving pampered young offenders prompted an abandonment of the received wisdom in favour of much tougher regimes.
The operatic repertory is an accumulation of comfort and habit on the part of audiences and performers alike, but you can always find a few high-minded guerrillas doing battle with the received wisdom.
But now that cricketing received wisdom has finally embraced the peerless talents of the statistically freakish South African Jacques Kallis, Samaraweera has a good case to be considered the most underrated cricketer of the age.
The size and complexity of this data, in combination with the focus on the creation of shareholder value through competitively superior decision-making, has required a unique process that has led to some conclusions contrary to emerging received wisdom, starting with an unconventional definition of Big Data.
But if an effect is there, it will always be there unless it is masked by a second, undamaged copy of the gene in question. (There are two versions of most genes in an individual, one inherited from each parent.) That, at least, is the received wisdom.
In the looking glass world of current U.S. foreign policy, the received wisdom is that Iran might have bombs tomorrow, and was working toward them yesterday--but in the eternal sunshine of the present moment, it is never quite clear to the White House that Iran is actually building the bomb.
In each case, Mr. Hagel was articulating a view that was exactly in keeping with received Beltway wisdom.
Summers obliged with what sounded a lot like received VC wisdom: tech investors should look for specialist ideas that can spread quickly, and on a mass scale.
The reason that the diet has been the target of consistent abuse from the scientific establishment is that its rules contradict the central pillars of received nutritional wisdom.
Obama also went to Spain in the summer of 2010 on a personal trip with friends and daughter Sasha, but her stay at a luxury resort on the Costa del Sol wasn't well-received back home, raising questions about the cost and wisdom of taking such a trip during tough economic times.
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