The consequences of any changes will be felt for years.
If there is one rule of thumb governing campaign finance regulation, or the lack thereof, it is that the consequences of any changes in the system are unpredictable.
But it may also be because many of China's problems are so tough to fix, particularly for a Communist Party that is, at heart, cautious and careful, concerned about making any missteps, about the unintended consequences of any changes it might make, and beholden to many of its own vested interests.
With power calculations it is possible to quantify the consequences of any changes in the pipelines and thus to better assess the relative benefits.
"It is important that any potential changes to the airplane's design be reviewed with great care, and with due consideration for any potential unintended consequences of any change.
"The danger is that you muck around with a constitution like the British constitution at your peril because you do not know what the consequences of any change will be," Neuberger explained.
It is true that the consequences of any change for the better or worse in educational matters will affect more directly the next generation than the present, but the clarification of men's minds and the settlement of a course of action in this direction are urgently desirable.
The shadow treasurer also demanded the government release a new review of the GST distribution arrangements by the productivity commission so that voters can understand the consequences of any change on state and territory finances ahead of the looming super Saturday of byelections triggered by the high court's decision last week in the Katy Gallagher case.
A critic of what he saw as a hastily assembled Supreme Court, he said: "The danger is that you muck around with a constitution like the British constitution at your peril because you do not know what the consequences of any change will be". Phillips's response was characteristic of a judge with a reputation for scrupulous fairness.
Building on rational expectations concepts introduced by the American economist John Muth, Lucas observed that people tend to anticipate the consequences of any change in fiscal policy: they "behave rationally" by adjusting their actions to take advantage of new laws or regulations, inevitably weakening or undermining them.
We also did not explicitly model the health consequences of any change in fat intake associated with the intervention effects on fruit and vegetable consumption.
