In this essay, we identify the key paradox of modern planning which seeks to intervene in systems that have enormous complexity, growing and evolving rather than being designed in any top-down fashion.
A few years ago Gauti Eggertsson identified the "paradox of toil"; in our joint work we sketched out the related "paradox of flexibility".
The noted political scientist Lilia Shevtsova has identified a paradox in the Russian elite.
Thus, the identified adherence paradox reflects this essence of guidelines and signalizes its appropriate application in certified BC networks [ 15].
For instance, the evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement, including the founding of the Cochrane Collaboration, can be understood as a social movement 19 that sought to respond to the problem we identified in Paradox 1: that some treatments known to work are ignored, and other treatments not shown to work get used.
Talking to Eric Hobsbawm later in life, Miller identified two paradoxes that make the US so volatile and contradictory.
When Rickey describes his new player as "superhuman," he is bestowing a curse in the form of praise, and identifying a paradox central to postwar racial politics.
In his book, Lipsyte identifies the paradox of a country that was obsessed with professional sports but that also seemed — owing to issues regarding race, gender, class, and envy — to hate many of the people who excelled at them.
"Cold, Cold Heart" identifies the paradox ("The more I care for you, the more we drift apart"), and then gently recounts the impossibility of trying to conquer that kind of rival.
In Renewal, Neal Lawson and Paul Thompson also identify a paradox - "that while Labour commands the political scene, the prospect of 10 more years does not exactly make the heart sing, even among many of the government's natural supporters".
