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I HAVE been mulling today an aphorism, generally attributed to Kenneth Boulding: "Economics has gotten so rigorous we've all got rigor mortis".As technology and mathematical techniques have evolved, the frontier of economic research has gotten quite technical so technical, in fact, that it has become inaccessible to the untrained.
On a stage framed by curtains of a Valentine's Day red, against an equally red map of the 48 continental states and what seemed like a life-sized Statue of Liberty, the conservative stars paced and preached a gospel of radical self-reliance and self-reckoning moral rigor.
As Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, he has continued to serve with characteristic intellectual rigor , dedication, and patriotism.
"He's a man of rigor , he's a man of control, he's a good administrator, he's a good manager.
Business programs also attract more than their share of students who approach college in purely instrumental terms, as a plausible path to a job, not out of curiosity about, say, Ronald Coase's theory of the firm... Some believe it is a mistake to fetishize job preparation and the "rigor " of fields like accounting and finance.
Editors of The Economist, I am not surprised by the publication of an article with tabloid connotations, that lacks any kind of journalist rigor , that obeys a campaign iniciated by an individual with no morals or ethics, and that unfortunately, you have repeated.
In a book of that name, Sam Tanenhaus wrote that: "Today's conservatives resemble the exhumed figures of Pompeii, trapped in postures of frozen flight, clenched in the rigor mortis of a defunct ideology".
That (plus other things such as election rigging) has left Belarus's application with rigor mortis.
In their latest book "Aspiring Adults Adrift", sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, of New York University and the University of Virginia respectively, fear that universities focus too much these days on students' social lives at the expense of academic rigor.
I understand some economists may interpret that choice as an attempt to dodge academia's demands for a particular level of rigor.
It's always possible to come up with reasons why one counterexample or another is "different"; to be taken seriously, such dismissals need to be made with a little more rigor than Mr Smith offers here.
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The word "rigor" primarily functions as a noun , often denoting the quality of being extremely thorough, accurate, and controlled. As demonstrated by Ludwig's examples, it appears in contexts that emphasize adherence to high standards and precision.
Expression frequency: Very common
