Many economists think that full employment is an unattainable goal.
an unattainable ideal
Transaction cost economics advocates comparative institutional analysis as opposed to a comparison of the status quo with an unattainable 'first best'.
Both the panegyric and the wine poem begin with the condition of separation definitive of the empirical self, figured through the idealized, unattainable beloved.
Thriving street markets offer a multitude of goods, including illicit ones, that were unattainable in the region before.
The high returns that cooperating individuals receive from whale hunting are unattainable by solitary hunters.
Inclusive and open meetings under the 'canopy of heaven' invested themselves with an 'honesty' that was unattainable in 'fashionable halls and gilded rooms'.
This article argues that 'ideal dialogue', which is free from power, is unattainable and unrealistic, and power is inherent in all dialogues.
Professionals hold themselves and are held to unattainable standards.
Here there was a trade-off, as a result of which women's organisations achieved some perhaps otherwise unattainable goals, but became prisoners of cardenista political culture.
