Instead, Uber wants to divert everyone's attention to a much less consequential question: Does Uber even need a permit to test self-driving taxis?
Yet in jointly honoring the work of Mr. Fama and Mr. Shiller, the committee also highlighted how far the economics profession remains from agreeing on the answer to a basic and consequential question: How do markets work?
If so, November could pose an even more consequential question: against whom is this anger to be directed?
Since 23 June it has become a host of hugely important consequential questions about access, rights and rules, all of which involve big principles and have huge economic, political and cultural implications.
Congress would be doing the American people a service if it came together to tackle these more consequential questions, and not just the problem of air-traffic delays.
It is among the most consequential questions for Egypt's allies, like the United States and Israel, and for the next Egyptian president.
The four questions are simple, yet consequential questions, and have been deduced from various theories and concepts from a multitude of disciplines: (1) Vulnerability of what?
To raise deep questions on campuses to a level that requested if not required university campus resources to be called upon to stop and focus their lens of inquiry directly into these pressing, immediately consequential questions.
In a memo, Bennet and deputy editorial page editors Jim Dao and Katie Kingsbury promised "further additions to our lineup in the coming months as we continue to broaden the range of Times debate about consequential questions".
But the good news is that at the moment, it's featuring a genuine debate about a profoundly consequential policy question.
The real question is whether this translates into a substantially better gaming experience.
