There are also concerns about the long-term sustainability of farming practices encouraged by the Green Revolution in both the developed and the developing world.
John Gottman, the marriage expert, explains that we quickly "thin slice" information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in the "thick sliced" long-term study.
There is only a small study showing a beneficial effect of adding soy polysaccharides to control bowel habits in patients on long-term enteral nutrition over one year (20).
Transient investors, who demand high quarterly profits from companies, can hinder a firm's efforts to invest in long-term research or to build up customer loyalty.
It rankles, but on the other hand, these regulations survive because the reality is that people are victimized all the time and we can't just allow companies to act in secrecy.
"If you figure out what you need to get out of the job to help your career, and go after it, you have a positive incentive to serve out that term," Dufour says.
If real dividends barely grow over the long term, then a forecast of stagnant nominal dividends may simply reflect investors' expectations of zero inflation.
And it seemed to work, thanks to the long period of disinflation from 1982 onwards, which saw nominal bond yields fall sharply and share prices rise substantially.
Discrimination by age, long-term unemployment, the fact that they're now at the end of the hiring queue, the lack of time horizon just does not make it sensible to invest in them.