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It didn't reference Al Gore's "livability agenda" for the 2000 election or quote any politicians decrying the pernicious social effect of traffic.
But used with words with unfavorable connotations, it assumes a pernicious meaning of make-believe, for example, “Is that still his story?”
Keynes believed that this kind of speculation was pernicious.
In today's dispatch, we learn how gambling's foes seek to demonize wagering as a pernicious tobaccolike vice.
Some economists, however--notably Berkeley's Maurice Obstfeld and Barry Eichengreen--argue that the standard model is too mechanical in its representation of government policy, and that the more complex motives of actual governments make speculation a more uncertain and perhaps more pernicious affair.