This decision was a cold, political cost-benefit calculus.
The rule requires more than a cost-benefit calculus to deter police misconduct, Justice Ginsburg wrote.
Some version of a cost-benefit calculus for learning is inevitable in a precarious economy with expensive, debt-funded education.
The truth is, no cost-benefit calculus will tell us whether all that money is well spent.
But, when the policies help our enemies with recruitment, that should at least be added to the cost-benefit calculus.
However, this study shows that dispositional factors such as self-control and procedural justice moderate the cost-benefit calculus.
In the literature, such deviant behavior is generally considered to be the result of a cost-benefit calculus.
If Mr. Mbeki's cost-benefit calculus has been such that he hasn't seen it necessary to take tougher action, perhaps it's time to change that calculus.
That changed the cost-benefit calculus of stents versus surgery in cases where patients have multiple blockages in two or more arteries or have other complications.
The awareness that others are watching, and that you will be able to communicate with them about what happens, changes the cost-benefit calculus of the potential viewer.
"So in the cost-benefit calculus of being in the government, I just felt that on policy terms I could do more outside the government than within".
