Too often in Othello, Iago's motives for doing down his former comrade can be obscure, but Kinnear insists his villainy is explicable.
To the outsider's eye these complaints tend to display a high degree of pettiness and conceit, as with the applicant for a medical job with the commission who argued that his non-hiring was explicable only by a prejudice on the commission's part against Swedish medical qualifications.
From the gaps (all explicable) in the surviving evidence about Auschwitz-Birkenau they infer that the gas chambers there were a propaganda invention.
Isn't this irrational, and further evidence of the uselessness of economic theory?Not according to a recent article* in the RAND Journal of Economics, which argues that such behaviour is readily explicable.
James Surowiecki looks at the case as a poignant encapsulation of the bubble mentality that prevailed in 2007:What's less explicable, and more troubling, is the way all the players in this deal in effect outsourced the responsibility for their own due diligence to others.
This is a China-like level, and explicable by the same demographic change that China has undergone.
The triumph of DOS over the Macintosh operating system is equally explicable.
The benign view is that the rise in swap spreads is explicable by rising interest rates, greater default risk, and the relative sizes of government- and corporate-bond markets.Governments are issuing fewer bonds.
Explicable differences amounted to 77% of the overall pay gap between the sexes.
As Felix Salmon notes in an excellent post on the virtual money, enthusiasts for Bitcoin and gold come from separate social niches so this trend divergence is explicable, even though one might think their fundamental similarities (a restricted supply) might prompt them to be correlated in normal circumstances.
It's easy to attack items in a stimulus package that are not immediately explicable as "things that will help the economy".
