To compound this misdiagnosis, The Economist proffers medicine that would do more harm than good.
But Nickell disagrees, saying that dead-end tips do more harm than good by wasting police resources.
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For example, disclosure and reporting techniques can be appropriate or they might do more harm than good.
Some worry, however, that changing the safeguards currently in place might do more harm than good.
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The first is that it will jack up inflation and so do more harm than good.
Keep in mind that making personal sacrifices for a start-up can potentially do more harm than good.
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Trying to use capital controls to slow the tide, the IMF said, would do more harm than good.
No, painting a mysterious picture of financial fairies and monetary monsters will likely do more harm than good.
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They also may do more harm than good, causing formation of scar tissue that makes eventual repair more difficult.
But the bank might do more harm than good if it shifted focus from absolute poverty to relative deprivation.
But one done in haste, and mainly to help win an election, could yet do more harm than good.
In the case of cardiac implants, not all require removal, and such a procedure may do more harm than good.
But Americans who think a vastly expanded federal government is likely to do more harm than good should think twice.
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Except in the short term, these would do more harm than good, and set an unwelcome precedent in the region.
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Even if the MACT Rule does not turn out the lights, it is likely to do more harm than good.
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Researchers from four top business schools have collaborated to show that in many cases goals do more harm than good.
Sluggish employment growth and high unemployment rates naturally add to new calls for protection that would do more harm than good.
But many companies, including some that have given in to the boycotters, argue that such withdrawals do more harm than good.
Merging two pharmaceutical companies can do more harm than good, as a look at Pfizer's stock chart over the last decade shows.
But economists who study the unintended consequences of tariffs conclude that even in this special case, tariffs do more harm than good.
Sometimes the best meaning laws can actually do more harm than good.
But some of its attempted reforms may do more harm than good.
Yet charities increasingly feel that they may do more harm than good.
The consequences must be weighed to ensure that it will not do more harm than good to the people it seeks to protect.
The mood in Europe has changed, the bank says, and leaders have decided that a Greek exit would probably do more harm than good.
That is, in some cases, cause marketing can actually do more harm than good--the opposite of corporate social responsibility--eliminating all justification for the practice.
What if Republicans refuse to negotiate a deal on the fiscal cliff because they feel that any tax increase would do more harm than good?
We are also seeing Mr. Obama reverse himself on the domestic front, but this time in a manner that will do more harm than good.
Other costs of accession, though, will do more harm than good.
In September the United States Preventive Services Taskforce, a panel of medical experts, concluded that tests to screen for ovarian cancer do more harm than good.
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