propensity
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The parameter β1 was called the Marginal Propensity to Consume in Macroeconomics Principles.
From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017
The great Propensity we have in our Nature to flatter our selves, makes us easy Casuists in our own Concerns.
From An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War by Mandeville, Bernard
What is further very extraordinary in this Work, is, that the Persons are all of them laudable, and their Misfortunes arise rather from unguarded Virtue than Propensity to Vice.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
His Countenance is higher coloured than in Health; he has a Propensity to sleep, but attended with Confusion and without Refreshment, and has sometimes an extraordinary Appetite.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
There have been Instances of their Propensity to a heavy kind of Drowsiness at this Time; for perfect refreshing Sleep advances but slowly after this Disease.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
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