Sentence examples for irrational calculation from inspiring English sources

Ms. Stark said on Friday that she was committed to continuing to study the need for more fundamental changes in the law, promising, for example, to prepare a statistical analysis of what the impact would be if property taxes were based on the full market value of a home, instead of the complicated and sometimes seemingly irrational calculation of what the city calls "assessed value".

We're all subject to this kind of irrational calculation, and often the costs are far greater than $400.

The treaty is eroding, but to turn away from its principles now would be far more irrational than any calculation Kim Jong Il has yet made.

The calculations are irrational, and buyers are usually unaware they are doing it.

These calculations are stupid, irrational, and almost impossible to resist, and it feels like poor sportsmanship for a company to encourage them.

"It is not possible to argue these were irrational leaders, unable to make means-ends calculations".

"These irrational steps by Sarkozy based on vote calculations will harm French-Turkish relations," Mr. Erdogan said.

We don't know whether they will cross this threshold, but either way it is a purely political calculation and not especially mysterious or "irrational".

This development leads into a contradictory situation both on the practical and the theoretical level: because the process of rationalization precludes the grasp of any kind of totality, it cannot ever succeed in making the whole of society subject to rational calculation for it necessarily must exclude all irrational, qualitative dimensions from such calculation.

Somehow, "irrational exuberance" (Robert Schiller) or "animal spirits" (John Maynard Keynes) overwhelmed rational calculations of risk and reward.

Suddenly, the prevailing belief was that markets are rational and dynamic, subject to predictable and precise calculations, while state regulation is inherently populist, irrational and economically destructive.