Perhaps a loose criterion for judging the desirability of different market structures is American economist William Baumol's concept of "contestable markets": if a market is easy to enter and to exit, it is "contestable" and hence workably competitive.
Certainly it is contestable to what extent the public could embrace further demotion of the moral importance of death, and to what extent its limited ability to do so matters for public policy.
Additionally, it is contestable whether autonomy is the most precious resource for employees [ 28] in the DCM, whereas it is a point of discussion that the ERI model fosters salary and esteem rewards as the main means of compensating job strain.
But search is hardly like that: it's eminently contestable.
It is nevertheless contestable that laissez faire approaches are more fruitful than ones directed at worldly problems.
What makes ours a "secular" age, he writes, is not that it is defined by unbelief, but rather that belief is contestable and contested.
Interpretations, however, are contestable - especially if you have expensive lawyers and sophisticated accountants bent on finding an interpretation that will permit a valued client to do what he or she wishes.
The first two assumptions are contestable; as for dining, however, this culturally rich city of 600,000 equals or surpasses its larger siblings in offering a remarkable variety of so-called X cuisines -- Mexican, Tex-Mex, nuevo-Tex-Mex, regional-Mex and New-Mex-Mex (from New Mexico).
But Zhang's claim is contestable.
Thompson's interpretations were contestable, but his honesty and research were not.
The details of the bargain were contestable; it was a shame they promised to continue Scotland's outsized share of public spending.
