ratchet effect

Prison policy for the past two decades has been subject to a ratchet effect.

It lost 30pc to 40pc in labour competitiveness against Germany by a slow ratchet effect.

This ratchet effect might well be the trigger for final insolvency.

The remedy of disclosure has failed, simply encouraging the ratchet effect.

Union power, for all its democratic romanticism, creates a dangerous ratchet effect.

There is a sort of upward ratchet effect where each achievement level becomes the baseline for the next change.

There has been a ratchet effect in training with players working as hard as they can and it's lifted the whole team.

It is this combination that produces the ratchet effect.

Ratchet effect is the inability of a system to reduce its scope once it expands.

Work was not immediately being done, though; the ratchet effect only commenced beyond a critical shaking strength.

They have been driven by a ratchet effect.

The monthly ratchet effect will then become painfully evident.

Current focus is on quantum ratchet effects in asymmetric microstructures.

Thus, the ratchet effect is costly because our employer cannot commit, yet would benefit from learning how productive we really are.

What is needed is a new status quo to avoid the ratchet effect.

An anti-innovation bias (also from fear of the ratchet effect)

There is a ratchet effect to intolerance and humourlessness.

The ratchet effect can be seen in long-term trends in the production of many consumer goods.

The government now faces a ratchet effect.

Cultural learning allows humans to build on existing knowledge and make collective advancements, also known as the "ratchet effect".

The ratchet effect simply refers to the way in which humans continuously add on to existing knowledge through modifications and improvements.

What ratchet effect proponents on the right and left get wrong is that popularity is overrated.

This is also called the "ratchet effect".

Game theory The ratchet effect is central to the mathematical Parrondo's paradox.

This is known as the 'ratchet effect', for standards of living ratchet upwards and tend to stay up.