Indeed, sometimes it leads to results that are inefficient, nasty, or both.

Today, however, it is more likely to prove disruptive to friend and foe alike, as well as damaging to those countries that indulge this temptation.

Energy embargoes have generally proven counterproductive.

Skeptics who treat public diplomacy as a euphemism for broadcasting government propaganda miss the point.

Simple propaganda lacks credibility and thus is counterproductive.

It leads, in the worst cases, in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim, it leads to increased rates of suicide.

Free market economics leads to great outcomes for the rich, but pretty miserable outcomes for everyone else.

History teaches that diplomacy all too frequently produces results only when backed by overwhelming power. Such was the existentialist worldview of US President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Theodore Roosevelt, a major advocate of American expansionism A just war is, in the long run, far better for a man s soul than the most prosperous peace.

History teaches that diplomacy all too frequently produces results only when backed by overwhelming power.

But the debate is now being distorted by a secondary struggle between the EU's large and small countries, with results that are sometimes paradoxical.

For today s European leaders, the central lesson of 1989 is that force is counterproductive what matters is consensus.

She said, What leads to success?

This led to unexpected results.

After years of torturing people in one of South America s most savage dirty wars, Brazil s generals decided to stop it, because its institutionalized use was undermining the armed forces discipline and morale.

Aside from the fact that torturing people is not the same as combat, and requires little bravery, this gets it exactly wrong.

But, since these devices cost money, asymmetric information always leads to worse results than would otherwise occur.

Perhaps because Iraq will define his legacy, he has proven reluctant to let go at a point when his policy appears to be a disaster.

Unfortunately, the plan backfired.

True, such conditions exist throughout Latin America, but elsewhere they do not have the same potency.

When China buys US Treasury bills, who depends on whom?

Exchange generates interdependence.

Worse still, the war on terror was counterproductive.

Proof positive that proportional representation can produce strange outcomes.

He knew that dictatorships lead to moral shabbiness.

Most importantly, it leads into J'ouvert.

People who might not stress that the government should protect failing businesses or redundant workers still have sympathies that might often lead to such outcomes.

Few state visits have lasting results.

That creates huge costs.

Events have shown that this policy leads to an escalation of violence.

Timidity is counterproductive, because it backfires.

Unfortunately, the political economy of austerity has led to sub optimal outcomes.

This produces paradoxical results here in France, where despite all the anti globalization rhetoric McDonald s is more popular than anywhere else in Europe.

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He is saying, look, when individual actors just act in their own self interest, that often in aggregate leads to things that each of those individual actors did not intend.

Interestingly, Jones thinks markets already have adapted to Fed policy expectations.

Unfortunately, this often results in inadvertent harm.

The discriminatory treatment of GMOs creates widespread mischief.

Hubris creates blind spots.

This mismatch causes fundamental problems.

It does, however, increase inequality.

Taking a screening test doesn't give you cancer.

That means more anxiety, which translates into poorer health.

This causes inflation, because, other than fuel, Russians do not produce much else.

So far, the Union's actions have achieved the opposite. For example, three years ago Ukrainians crossed the border with Poland six million times.

So far, the Union's actions have achieved the opposite.