Unintended Consequences.(analyisis)

The Futurist;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Plans Don't Go According to Plan] Unintended consequences teach futurists, presidents, and...policy makers a lesson in humility. Unintended consequences have a way of underscoring the...immutable rules of nature, the law of unintended consequences, which states that you cannot...

Oops: Unintended Consequences; How Hinduism's problems turned out to

Hinduism Today;  April 30, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Hinduism Today 04-30-1997 Oops: Unintended Consequences; How Hinduism's problems turned...rare birds to extinction's edge. Unintended consequences. Behold the ominous green sea...increases where it was planted! Unintended consequences. Edward Tenner calls these "revenge...

The law of welcome surprises. (positive unintended consequences)(Column)

U.S. News & World Report;  December 30, 1996 ;     700+ words ......afoul of the so-called law of unintended consequences. As the conservative thinker Irving...news stories cited examples of unintended consequences, ranging from automobile air bags...a simple but neglected truth. Unintended consequences are not inevitably disastrous...

Unintended consequences

Jerusalem Post;  July 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ......counterproductive. And other times, these unintended consequences are disastrous to all. All of...losers, became victims of the unintended consequences syndrome. The monarchs who ruled...prevent it. But the problem with unintended consequences is that they are unknown at the...

Fed: CBA s Murray says charter may have unintended consequences

AAP General News (Australia);  June 27, 2001 ;     269 words ......s Murray says charter may have unintended consequences CANBERRA, June 27 AAP - Any social...industry could result in damaging unintended consequences, Commonwealth Bank chief executive...discussed against the background of unintended consequences on customers." Past experience...

I'm doing better but feeling worse: serendipity, unintended consequences,...

Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......When we don't like it, we call it unintended consequences. In both cases the outcomes are...for missed classes, so could I. Unintended Consequences The concept of unanticipated consequences...being referred to as the Law of Unintended Consequences. The Law is: Regardless of the...

unintended consequences

Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      72 words ...unintended consequences One of the core insights of sociology is that the purposes...exhaust the meaning or results of their actions. The “unintended consequences of purposive social action” (as Robert K. Merton phrased...

Act like an adult: The truth behind unintended consequences

The Journal for Quality and Participation;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......American business vocabulary. "Unintended consequences" is being connected to the complexity...assumption behind the concept of unintended consequences is simple: we do something that...accepting them is wrong. Most unintended consequences are mislabeled. Better they should...

The law of unintended consequences

The Quill;  January 1, 1998 ;     331 words ......without a mention of the Law of Unintended Consequences. This is a law of economics that...for faculty parties. The Law of Unintended Consequences is fairly clear in this case...soaked. Even worse, the Law of Unintended Consequences showed up in full regalia. The...

Unintended Consequences - The United States at War

RUSI Journal;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Unintended Consequences - The United States at War...American history. All wars have unintended consequences. 'Consequence management...place. When they speak of 'unintended' consequences, they are referring to those...

Somalia: Decades Of Unintended Consequences

NPR All Things Considered;  June 7, 2006 ;     461 words ......06-07-2006 Somalia: Decades Of Unintended Consequences Time 20:00-21:00 PM Play Audio...decades a case study in the law of unintended consequences. During the Cold War, the U.S...thousands of Ethiopians and Somalis, unintended consequences. In 1992 television pictures of...

Research and Markets : Ensuring the Benefits of Public Reporting and...

M2 Presswire;  September 12, 2007 ;     571 words ......Pay-for-Performance Programs Outweigh the Unintended Consequences, an Audio Conference on CD-ROM...Pay-for-Performance Programs Outweigh the Unintended Consequences, an Audio Conference on CD-ROM...raised about the potential for unintended consequences of performance measurement ...

Unintended consequences mar bills

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  March 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Legislators must move carefully to avoid unintended consequences. If we are hasty, we may indeed...Unfortunately, the proposal has unintended consequences that do more harm than good. It...colleagues in the House agree. Another "unintended consequences" example is the concept ...

EDITORIAL: Beware of surprises: Slow amendment process in Indiana may...

News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN);  February 15, 2007 ;     649 words ......the process. There can always be unintended consequences, and a change to the constitution...change in Massachusetts has brought unintended consequences for domestic partners, of both...radical change might lead to similar unintended consequences. In addition to banning same-sex...

California is hampered by unintended consequences

Oakland Tribune;  June 3, 2003 ;     672 words ......they faithfully obey the law of unintended consequences. Whether decreed by voters or...decisions, in terms of long-term unintended consequences, is Proposition 13, the property...unborn will be dealing with its unintended consequences. Dan Walters writes for the Sacramento...