Some analysts put Graff's failure down to idiosyncratic reasons around its company and sector.
Others will choose low-pay jobs for idiosyncratic reasons, like a wish to do charitable work.
Some are also screening out tenants for various, often idiosyncratic reasons.
Because an overwhelming majority of financial setbacks occur for such idiosyncratic reasons, it's natural to think that the income decline from higher taxes would have similar effects.
For idiosyncratic reasons, Canada imposed tight monetary and fiscal policy, leading to a very severe slump in employment: As you can see, however, employment eventually recovered.
To some extent, this was for idiosyncratic reasons: Mr. Perry's poor performance in the debates; Mr. Cain's sexual harassment scandal; Mr. Gingrich's vulnerability to a series of attacks.
They noted that income fluctuated for idiosyncratic reasons from year to year -- an employee could lose a job, for example -- so estimates that depended on a single year were based on "noisy" data.
Not to mention my own idiosyncratic reasons for putting Patience Gray's Honey From a Weed next to Stevie Parle's Real Food From Near and Far, or Sally Clarke's book next to my Chez Panisse collection.
Needn't be too "super", even: just being able to refold damp maps in small cars would have worked for me, and I've known people who for idiosyncratic reasons have chosen to be unassailably right in any given argument through the superpower of irrationality, and one (hi, Ross!) who, in defiance of all musical laws, repeatedly managed to play the blues in three-four time.
So if our Fitting Attitudes account says that something is good just in case necessarily, everyone (perhaps in some important class) has reason to desire it, then idiosyncratic reasons such as those created by external incentives will not constitute any sort of counterexample, in the first place.
