• The conventional wisdom or received opinion is the body of ideas or explanations generally accepted by the public and/or by experts in a field. (wikipedia.org)
  • I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conventional wisdom was used in a number of other works before Galbraith, occasionally in a benign or neutral sense, but more often pejoratively. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conventional wisdom is not necessarily true. (wikipedia.org)
  • That is, conventional wisdom has a property analogous to inertia that opposes the introduction of contrary belief, sometimes to the point of absurd denial of the new information or interpretation by persons strongly holding an outdated but conventional view. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since conventional wisdom is convenient, appealing, and deeply assumed by the public, this inertia can last even after many experts and/or opinion leaders have shifted to a new convention. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conventional wisdom may be political, being closely related to the phenomenon of talking points. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term is used pejoratively to suggest that consistently repeated statements become conventional wisdom whether they are true or not. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, the conventional wisdom in 1950, even among most doctors, was that smoking tobacco is not particularly harmful to one's health. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] The conventional wisdom today is that it is. (wikipedia.org)
  • More narrowly, the conventional wisdom in science and engineering once was that a man would suffer lethal injuries if he experienced more than eighteen g-forces in an aerospace vehicle, but it is so no longer. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sometimes, the present conventional wisdom treats of past conventional wisdom. (wikipedia.org)
  • yet, if enough people read and believed it, it would supplant the old belief (in a prevailing view of a flat earth in Columbus's time), becoming the new conventional wisdom. (wikipedia.org)
  • clarification needed] Evidence-based medicine is a deliberate effort to acknowledge expert opinion (conventional wisdom) and how it coexists with scientific data. (wikipedia.org)
  • Anti-proverb Argumentum ad populum Basic norm Boiling frog Common knowledge Common sense Consensus reality Convenience Contrarian Dominant ideology Mass psychology Paradigm shift Social constructionism Social loafing Speaking truth to power Truthiness "It will be seen that we appeal, in such a case, neither to the records of legislation nor yet to the conventional wisdom of our forefathers. (wikipedia.org)
  • The conventional wisdom is that these lessons are mostly different in degree from "big" wars, that small wars are not fundamentally different from big wars. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • His conclusions have often been unfashionable, not because he is by nature a contrarian, but rather because he brings a clear-eyed understanding of the data and a willingness to follow the implications of his data and his theoretical instincts, no matter where they lead, even when those conclusions put him at odds with conventional wisdom. (cuny.edu)
  • But perhaps the biggest loser of all was conventional wisdom. (sightline.org)
  • As of late 2007, conventional wisdom asserted that Hillary Clinton had the Democratic nomination sewn up, and that McCain ought to pull the plug on his faltering, underfunded campaign. (sightline.org)
  • Conventional wisdom went 0-for-2 on that one. (sightline.org)
  • The failure of conventional wisdom was no better regarding Washington's Initiative 985. (sightline.org)
  • Conventional wisdom- especially the confident assurances of political insiders-is absolutely no guide to what's possible in the world. (sightline.org)
  • The fact that conventional wisdom is so often foolish is both confounding, and excellent news. (sightline.org)
  • Conventional wisdom in Idaho's Treasure Valley would not have thought that a Nov. 4th ballot measure to increase motor vehicle registration fees would have passed in tax averse Idaho. (sightline.org)
  • Conventional wisdom was a concept invented by economist John Kenneth Galbraith. (manufacturing.net)
  • As a result, be believed conventional wisdom was usually untrue. (manufacturing.net)
  • No, of course not, which is why Galbraith got all worked up about conventional wisdom in the first place. (manufacturing.net)
  • But Native American tribes, ranchers in the Great Plains, and environmental organizations ignored the conventional wisdom and decided to make Keystone XL a symbol for the choices we face in the era of climate change: Will we continue with the anachronistic fossil fuel economy, or make a pivot toward a society powered by clean energy? (sierraclub.org)
  • Exactly the opposite of the Washington conventional wisdom. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • And yet the Washington conventional wisdom is Obamacare repeal and replace dead, Ryan outsmarting Trump, Ryan doesn't want Trump to succeed. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • That's just the conventional wisdom. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • This new conventional wisdom, however, is wishful thinking. (prospect.org)
  • Conventional wisdom deems any challenge to the Hyde Amendment dead on arrival, a political nonstarter. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • But it is time for conventional wisdom to change. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • Conventional wisdom points to patronage. (usnwc.edu)
  • Once-divisive educational reforms thus appear increasingly like conventional wisdom. (city-journal.org)
  • The conventional wisdom is "There Is No Alternative," or TINA. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Often, though, they have come across as conventional wisdom, when in fact they are neither wise nor conventional. (upenn.edu)
  • Enter "Naked AI Pics," a revolutionary concept that challenges conventional thinking in profound ways. (politicalparry.co.uk)
  • The world is witnessing a trend of countries increasingly integrating conventional and nuclear deterrence concepts, war-fighting plans, and threatening rhetoric. (chathamhouse.org)
  • The blurring of conventional and nuclear deterrence is occurring in at least two distinct ways. (chathamhouse.org)
  • The first involves the increasing integration of conventional and nuclear war-fighting in ideas of how specific conflicts may be carried out, and therefore what constitutes effective deterrence in such scenarios. (chathamhouse.org)
  • Conventional Deterrence is a book about the origins of war. (portersquarebooks.com)
  • John J. Mearsheimer examines a number of crises that led to major conventional wars to explain why deterrence failed. (portersquarebooks.com)
  • Mearsheimer then critically assays the relative strengths and weaknesses of NATO and the Warsaw Pact to determine the prospects for conventional deterrence in any future crisis. (portersquarebooks.com)
  • He is also concerned with examining such relatively technical issues as the impact of precision-guided munitions (PGM) on conventional deterrence and the debate over maneuver versus attrition warfare.Mearsheimer pays considerable attention to questions of military strategy and tactics. (portersquarebooks.com)
  • Challenging the claim that conventional detrrence is largely a function of the numerical balance of forces, he also takes issue with the school of thought that ascribes deterrence failures to the dominance of "offensive" weaponry. (portersquarebooks.com)
  • In addition to examining the military consideration underlying deterrence, he also analyzes the interaction between those military factors and the broader political considerations that move a nation to war. (portersquarebooks.com)
  • Political Science Quarterly: Summer 1990: Review: Conventional Forces and American Defense Policy. (psqonline.org)
  • Congressional experts say they expect the so-called 'Flank Agreement,' updating the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE), to go through the legislative process with relative ease, although behind the scenes there was some controversy. (rferl.org)
  • It remains the policy of the United States to counter Iran's malign influence in the Middle East, including transfers from Iran of destabilizing conventional weapons and acquisition of arms and related materiel by Iran. (ucsb.edu)
  • Hutton argues that political interference by the Communist Party hinders the efficiency of the SOEs and the 57 sectors of the economy, including energy and chemicals, which are still state-controlled. (manufacturing.net)
  • Integrating the contributions of scholars in diverse disciplines, including history, law, political philosophy, and the social sciences, this book makes compelling reading for all those who seek to understand the transformation of America s political economy over the past century. (independent.org)
  • Her work lies at the intersection of political economy and security in the modern Middle East, particularly Israel/Palestine. (lu.se)
  • Hebatallah Taha, new CMES researcher and Associate Senior Lecturer in Political Science, gives a talk on the everyday nuclear histories and futures in the Middle East, 1945-1948. (lu.se)
  • Hebatalla Taha is an Associate Senior Lecturer at Lund University's Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Political Science. (lu.se)
  • Foo, Chuan Chew 2021-07-05 00:00:00 The purpose of this study aims to empirically examine the corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) levels of conventional and Islamic banks in Malaysia. (deepdyve.com)
  • The "Java" of Java-Futurism is not so much a place as an imaginary that is at once political, aesthetic, and cosmological. (lu.se)
  • At the other, a thriving artistic scene finds noise to be a rich source of creative inspiration, making music out of electronic distortion and mechanical sound, challenging conventional aesthetic norms and political rationales. (lu.se)
  • And is there no alternative to a system that generates continuous "quadruple crises"-the socioeconomic, political, environmental, and personal/psychological? (monthlyreview.org)
  • Conventional thinking often seeks clear-cut answers, but AI is a realm of uncertainty and probabilistic decision-making. (politicalparry.co.uk)
  • His work has always included a rigorous examination of what changing populations in the U.S. (and more recently in Europe) mean for the social, political, and increasingly the cultural nature of those societies. (cuny.edu)
  • Turning to the Middle East, he examines the differences in Israeli and Egyptian strategic doctrines prior to the start of the major conventional conflicts in that region. (portersquarebooks.com)
  • To interrogate the intellectual rigor and pragmatism of conventional scientific perspectives and discourses from an EUE perspective, a life cycle analysis (LCA)- based methodology for assessing the occurrence of EUE is first developed and tested. (lu.se)
  • and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. (opednews.com)
  • Members of Team "B" were deliberately selected from among experienced political and military analysts of Soviet affairs known to take a more somber view of the Soviet strategic threat than that accepted as the intelligence community's consensus. (cia.gov)
  • The office coordinates closely with ISN's Regional Affairs office and the Political-Military Affairs bureau on conventional weapons negotiations. (state.gov)
  • and greater participation of women in health services less than married ones, political and social affairs. (who.int)
  • CATR leads the development of U.S. policy on multilateral efforts on conventional weapons transfers, including the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and the U.N. Register of Conventional Arms. (state.gov)
  • Join the Academy of Political Science and automatically receive Political Science Quarterly. (psqonline.org)
  • The conventional basic climate model is partially described by two foremost theorists, Isaac Held and Brian Soden, in their paper of 2000 [1] , and more completely on pages 163-165 of the "gold standard" of climate textbooks, Raymond Pierrehumbert's Principles of Planetary Climate [2] (recommended if you want to know establishment climate science). (joannenova.com.au)
  • He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. (stanford.edu)
  • John J. Mearsheimer is R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. (portersquarebooks.com)
  • Wider-ranging potential consequences include scarcity of water and forced migration with the political tensions these involve. (who.int)
  • Wider-ranging potential consequences include water scarcity, forced migration and increased political tensions within and between countries. (who.int)
  • Relying on two-wave panel data collected in Spain, USA, and New Zealand, this study examines the mediating role of WhatsApp political discussion in the relationships between different types of news use and various forms of political participation. (psu.edu)
  • First, our findings reveal WhatsApp discussion has a positive influence on activism, and a more nuanced effect on conventional participation. (psu.edu)
  • African-American conventional and unconventional political participation, Paper 07-05. (bvsalud.org)
  • He also says capital will continue to be badly allocated without political reform. (manufacturing.net)
  • Finally, central banks should stick to their knitting and central bankers should not become participants in public debates and deeply political arguments about matters beyond their mandate and competence, including fiscal policy and structural reform. (repec.org)
  • And President Obama adopted education reform early in his political career. (city-journal.org)
  • The challenge now is to keep education reform at the forefront of the political discussion, while maintaining its bipartisan appeal. (city-journal.org)
  • This 1995 interview begins with Boineau's personal history, the formation of his political ideology, and his experiences at The Citadel. (sc.edu)
  • Iran benefits from engaging in the conventional arms trade by strengthening its relationships with other outlier regimes, lessening its international isolation, and deriving revenue that it uses to support terror groups and fund malign activities. (ucsb.edu)
  • Russia refused, saying new political realities required a loosening of the arms restrictions, particularly on its southern border. (rferl.org)
  • CATR also participates in the annual U.S.-EU Troika Consultations on Conventional Arms. (state.gov)
  • That will take political courage from both sides, particularly during an election season. (city-journal.org)
  • Examining political content, we find that Reddit underwent a significant polarization event around the 2016 US presidential election. (bvsalud.org)
  • Central banks' economic and political importance has grown in advanced economies since the start of the Great Financial Crisis in 2007. (repec.org)
  • The office is responsible in ISN for sanctions and interdiction policy for conventional weapons, working closely with bureau leadership and ISN's Counter-Proliferation Initiatives office to ensure that U.S. sanctions policy is effectively integrated with broader U.S. and international counter proliferation efforts. (state.gov)
  • Additionally, as Malaysian banks have different shareholding patterns that are more highly concentrated than those in the developed economies, this study also investigates the impact of ownership concentration on CSRD in both types of banks.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs hand-collected corporate social responsibility (CSR) data from the annual and sustainability reports of 21 conventional banks and 16 Islamic banks in Malaysia during 2010-2017. (deepdyve.com)
  • These recommendations come from concern for the political climate, and the hope that Mr. Trump can sidestep distractive and largely media-blown fundamental irrelevancies, batten down the administrative hatches, and focus on his winning agenda for the remainder of his term. (pjmedia.com)
  • The conventional basic climate model is moderately complicated when all the bits and pieces are included, so we are going to present it over two blog posts. (joannenova.com.au)
  • Officers formulate, coordinate, and implement U.S. policy in the Wassenaar Arrangement on controlling or providing transparency with respect to conventional weapons and related dual-use goods/technologies transfers and proliferation, focusing upon multilateral export control policies and practices for these items. (state.gov)
  • Another major concern expressed in the senate amendments is monitoring and verification of compliance with the conventional weapons restrictions. (rferl.org)
  • CATR leads U.S. government worldwide efforts to identify and stop specific shipments of conventional weapons and related sensitive dual-use items of concern, particularly to regions of conflict and states of concern, such as state sponsors of terrorism. (state.gov)
  • And let me give you an example of part of the theory or the thinking that says the real political objective now, since everybody agrees that it's going to fail. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • It assumes that Bush's foreign-policy choices reflect political expedience -- or the pressures of aggressive presidential advisers -- more than principle. (prospect.org)
  • Time and again, political insiders billed the 2007 "Roads-and-Transit" package as the last, best hope for rail transit in greater Seattle. (sightline.org)
  • Naked AI Pics offer us a glimpse into a future where conventional thinking no longer limits our understanding of AI. (politicalparry.co.uk)
  • Conventional Forces and American Defense Policy. (psqonline.org)
  • It gets some of what it wanted in the Flank Agreement which formalizes a shift from regional to national, territorial and border zone restrictions on conventional forces, and it exempts some border areas in Russia and Ukraine. (rferl.org)
  • At the last Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Kuala Lumpur, under the three-part slogan "our people, our community, our vision," the leaders of the 10 member-states welcomed the formation of the ASEAN Community based on three pillars: the ASEAN economic community, the ASEAN political-security community and the ASEAN socio-cultural community. (upenn.edu)
  • 20 years of political and economic turmoil, the Angkor temples have become one of the most popular tourist destinations in Southeast Asia. (cdc.gov)
  • Although evidence sug gests that some of these findings may apply to disasters worldwide, one must be cautious in extrapolating the data because of the social, cultural, economic, and political differences in other countries. (cdc.gov)
  • The alt-Right is 'not a political movement in the traditional sense' but 'a network of smallish digital social hubs' that 'can be broadly characterized as firmly supporting the counter-cultural rehabilitation of the white male individual through a hostile rejection of liberal-left discourse. (eurozine.com)
  • Mediante la educación ambiental se busca concientizar a las personas sobre los problemas del ambiente natural y social desde su formación escolar en la niñez para generar valores, nuevas actitudes, comportamientos y creencias orientadas al cuidado del medio ambiente y el aprendizaje de nuevas relaciones entre las personas. (bvsalud.org)
  • Significant political organizations and their leaders. (nationmaster.com)
  • subgroup analysis indicated statistically significant improvements of fever, cough, fatigue, and muscle pain in the Lianhua Qingwen group compared to the conventional drug group. (hindawi.com)
  • Those not wishing to get caught in this perilous conflict don't really have a spot on the traditional political spectrum because it only offers a binary choice. (wikispooks.com)
  • Coming after years of protests, marches, civil disobedience actions, and nonstop political pressure from both the grassroots and the Democratic party's major donors, the defeat of the pipeline is a clear win for the environment. (sierraclub.org)
  • Applying our methodology to 5.1 billion comments made in 10,000 communities over 14 years on Reddit, we measure how the macroscale community structure is organized with respect to age, gender and US political partisanship. (bvsalud.org)
  • For example, their yield is still lower than that of conventional crops, although this could improve within around ten years, and there is a lack of knowledge about the properties of the new crop types for baking and other areas of application. (lu.se)
  • CATR leads U.S. efforts to develop, coordinate, and implement policy to promote bilateral and multilateral coordination in export control policy for conventional weapons and related dual-use technology. (state.gov)
  • The ATT is an additional important step in our efforts to stem the illicit international trade in conventional weapons and reduce the risk that they will be used to carry out the world's worst crimes, including terrorism, war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. (state.gov)
  • CATR also reviews visa applications related to advanced conventional weapons, dual-use goods concerns, and related controlled technology issues. (state.gov)
  • The effects of such as the intellectual and cultural A qualitative study was conducted demographic transitions and changes backgrounds of societies, the ways ser- within a naturalistic paradigm1 and a in the age composition have led to vices are offered and the performance of conventional content analysis of inter- changes in the pattern of marriage, with health staff ( 10 ). (who.int)
  • The " fact checking " website Media Bias/Fact Check makes extensive use of the political spectrum. (wikispooks.com)
  • Abstract: Under what conditions could the United States control escalation in a conventional conflict with a nuclear-armed adversary? (stanford.edu)
  • The term plays on the political and temporal aesthetics of the concept "Afro-futurism", and refers to the contemporary practices of sound art and sound activism found among experimental musicians in Indonesia that seek to investigate a past that might have been, in order to imagine and define a future that might be. (lu.se)
  • A metaphorical mapping from all conceivable political systems onto a single dimension. (wikispooks.com)
  • Andy Schmookler, recently the Democratic nominee for Congress from Virginia's 6th District, is an award-winning author, political commentator, radio talk-show host, and teacher. (opednews.com)
  • It can all still happen, but it's time for some conventional finesse. (pjmedia.com)
  • John Bolt Culbertson's outspokenness and his political leanings, atypical for South Carolina at that time, resulted in financial setbacks, insults, and even crosses burned on his lawn, but Culbertson was largely undaunted. (sc.edu)
  • it is a particular kind of political chronotope - a way of understanding and acting in time and space. (lu.se)
  • I hope my research will challenge conventional ideas of space in international relations. (lu.se)
  • The only circumstances in which he can conceive of the US risking a preemptive attack would be when a state of tension had come about because political changes in the world order were moving decisively in the Russian favor, and when the US had a chance of limiting the scale of nuclear retaliation by means of a first strike at the Russian missile silos. (nybooks.com)
  • There are also valuable accounts of the semantic, political, and theological wranglings that shaped the emergent human rights discourse. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Last year, Cheney's White House energy task force produced an all-drilling-and-no-conservation plan that failed not just on policy grounds but as a political matter as well, saddling the administration with a year-long public relations headache after Cheney insisted on running his outfit with a near-Nixonian level of secrecy. (washingtonmonthly.com)
  • The data are then run using the pooled ordinary least square (OLS) with robust standard errors and robust regressions models together with all possible factors determining CSRD in the banking sector.FindingsThis study discovers that Islamic banks disclose a higher level of total CSRD than their conventional counterparts after controlling a number of important determinants of CSRD. (deepdyve.com)
  • Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. (lu.se)
  • And excellent news, since it shows that political certainties aren't certain. (sightline.org)
  • Central Banks: Powerful, Political and Unaccountable? (repec.org)