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- adjective Having a single
cause .
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Nonetheless, this exercise may be useful as an antidote to the kind of monocausal, ahistorical claims that are sometimes made on behalf of cutting taxes, such as this statement from the Heritage Foundation:
Howard Schweber: Laffer Curves and Tax Cuts: What Does It Take to Kill a Zombie? Howard Schweber 2011
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Nonetheless, this exercise may be useful as an antidote to the kind of monocausal, ahistorical claims that are sometimes made on behalf of cutting taxes, such as this statement from the Heritage Foundation:
Howard Schweber: Laffer Curves and Tax Cuts: What Does It Take to Kill a Zombie? Howard Schweber 2011
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Nonetheless, this exercise may be useful as an antidote to the kind of monocausal, ahistorical claims that are sometimes made on behalf of cutting taxes, such as this statement from the
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Howard Schweber 2011
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Like everything else, the demise of the bookstore is hardly monocausal, and certainly among the myriad reasons, the most obvious is the relative ease and convenience of Internet shopping, and another, rarely discussed notion: the concomitant death spiral of the newspaper.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: When Books Disappear Eric Alterman 2012
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It presupposes a split between organism and environment as if the organism itself could not possibly be its own designer, or that the designer and the organism are necessarily separate entities, or that there might be a monocausal agent rather than multi-causal agencies/influences.
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Like everything else, the demise of the bookstore is hardly monocausal, and certainly among the myriad reasons, the most obvious is the relative ease and convenience of Internet shopping, and another, rarely discussed notion: the concomitant death spiral of the newspaper.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: When Books Disappear Eric Alterman 2012
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The reference to THE risk premium, of course, reveals a monocausal Capital Asset PRICING Model (the conventional CAPM).
The Risk Premium, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Like everything else, the demise of the bookstore is hardly monocausal, and certainly among the myriad reasons, the most obvious is the relative ease and convenience of Internet shopping, and another, rarely discussed notion: the concomitant death spiral of the newspaper.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: When Books Disappear Eric Alterman 2012
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Like everything else, the demise of the bookstore is hardly monocausal, and certainly among the myriad reasons, the most obvious is the relative ease and convenience of Internet shopping, and another, rarely discussed notion: the concomitant death spiral of the newspaper.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: When Books Disappear Eric Alterman 2012
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Lots of people talk about back pain as if it is monocausal, what a load of crock!
Jack of Kent's Week - 14 June 2009 Jack of Kent 2009
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