The optimal combination of solutions will create the biggest impact for the least money.

This surge in business spending boosted overall demand.

Malicious observers suggest that she is to blame for pursuing populist social expenditures.

But there were other policies that would have provided far more stimulus at far less cost.

How do you provide medically relevant information at as close as possible to zero cost? How do you do it?

The best solution to climate change achieves the most good for the lowest cost.

The Internet allowed for a rapid worldwide dissemination of organizational plans at an extraordinarily low cost to the organizers.

At a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars annually, it will have virtually no impact on climate change.

Obama has emphasized the need for a green recovery, that is, one based on sustainable technologies, not merely on consumption spending.

The philosopher Denis Dutton in his wonderful book The Art Instinct makes the case that, The value of an artwork is rooted in assumptions about the human performance underlying its creation.

The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) has demonstrated that a low carbon future is within reach, with huge benefits at a very modest cost.

In some cases, even if motives are mixed, the prospects of success are reasonable, and the misery of a population can be relieved at modest expense.

With annual expenditures for prescription drugs in the US totaling 300 billion, there is certainly room to cut costs.

Initial warning signs of a pandemic are most likely to appear in the developing world, but detection nodes should be positioned in every country, with the least possible expense.

And they didn't really raise their hands, but they took me out to dinner and showed me what they could do with expense reports.

But the barriers to entry in the cyber domain are so low that non state actors and small states can play a significant role at low cost.

And we've had a classic answer for coordination costs, which is, if you want to coordinate the work of a group of people, you start an institution, right? You raise some resources.

But as the US led mission is currently conceived and described, it is not clear whether its objectives are achievable at acceptable costs in terms of time, money, and lives.

If we could only find the political will, establishing free trade could be achieved at a very low cost, with benefits of up to 2.4 trillion a year.

At the same time, Japan s demographic trends will boost demand for fiscal expenditure, as pension and health care costs rise.

Now we need to turn to climate economists to enlighten us about the benefits, costs, and possible outcomes from different responses to this challenge.

The Computer Professionals Union (CPU) has launched a website that aims to inform Filipino taxpayers about the additional expenses they will have to pay based on the proposed new taxes of the Philippine government.

But even if every nation signed up to Kyoto, it would merely postpone warming by six years in 2100, at an annual cost of 150 billion.

More likely, they will wonder why, in a world overflowing with inconvenient truths, Gore focused on the one where we could achieve the least good for the highest cost.

These advances will enable us to feed and provide power at a lower economic and environmental cost to the anticipated 2050 population of nine billion people.

But the Kyoto rules will make an almost imperceptible difference (postponing temperature increases from 2100 to 2106) at a substantial cost (about 150 billion per year).

(h) To promote the design, development, production and distribution of accessible information and communications technologies and systems at an early stage, so that these technologies and systems become accessible at minimum cost.

Moreover, by implementing the Kyoto Protocol at a cost of 180 billion annually would keep two million people from going hungry only by the end of the century. Yet by spending just 10 billion annually, the United Nations estimates that we could help 229 million hungry people today .

Moreover, by implementing the Kyoto Protocol at a cost of 180 billion annually would keep two million people from going hungry only by the end of the century.

Gasification of coal allows for the removal of dangerous pollutants, and coal can already be converted to gasoline at low cost a South African company is beginning to bring that technology to China on a large scale.

The project increased the percentage of highways classified as being in good or fair condition from 57 to 75 , at a total cost of 77 million, while the benefits of the project were estimated to be worth 612 million.

Hundreds of business executives, aware of the dramatic costs and potential benefits at stake, are now preparing to attend a UN conference on disaster risk reduction in Sendai, Japan.

While celebrity activists focus entirely on cutting CO2, we could do much more and at much lower cost if we addressed urban heat islands.

Moreover, following the triple shock of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophe in 2011, Japan has managed (at considerable cost) to replace the 25 of its energy supply that the disabled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant provided.

And if you go over the next 15 years or so to a blended wing body, kind of a flying wing with internal engines, then you get about a factor three efficiency improvement at comparable or lower cost.

After a decade that saw wages grow faster than productivity, unit labor costs (and the real exchange rate based on those costs) appreciated sharply.

As one perceptive journalist recently argued, America still has the means to address nearly any of its structural weaknesses energy use, medical costs, the right educational and occupational mix to rebuild a robust middle class.

An analysis by Goldman Sachs shows that, despite real wage gains, the share of labor costs in total manufacturing costs is lower than it was in 2001 a trend that continued in the first half of 2010.

Moreover, the productivity difference increased from 25 index points in 1999 to 66.2 in 2008 the difference in unit labor costs went from 5.4 percentage points to 31.8 and the difference in the unemployment rate rose from 10.1 percentage points to 15.4.