As Barcott writes, "the dam was a fiasco: environmentally devastating, economically unsound, geologically suspect and stinking of monopoly profiteering".
Fiscal conservatives embraced cost-benefit analysis to counter earlier models of environmental policy making, and business tycoons funded think tanks to denounce federal environmental regulation as economically harmful, constitutionally suspect, and unchristian, thereby appealing to evangelical views of man's God-given dominion of the Earth.
"The intellectually lazy, environmentally suspect and economically unsustainable mass delusion of an ever-expanding American housing market is justifiably dead," he writes.
Perhaps it is the relative affordability that draws economically challenged artists, but I suspect it is also a sense of community that is Brooklyn that fosters and nourishes a collective artistic soul that is drawn to this Borough in the shadow of New York City.
Likewise, abstract assertions that migration is economically advantageous get little purchase with people who suspect the advantages flow out of their communities.
The economically viable height of a commercial building is a complicated function of land value, construction costs and rents, but I suspect that it is nowhere close to 100 floors.
But, it would have been economically impossible for any utility to have hardened its entire grid in such a narrow timeframe and, as you'd suspect, customers don't like getting their electricity cut off merely as a preventative measure.
We suspect that an appropriate admission control strategy will be able to prevent the servers from becoming overloaded in an economically viable fashion.
"Those things bring up emotions in people". Dirty water "has to be damaging" the island economically, said Mayor Bob Kennedy, who suspects it's one of the reasons tourism has been on a slide for a decade.
