How to pronounce “tautological” in English

Why don't wages fall to clear the market?And the sort of tautological answer was, well, wages are sticky, meaning they don't fall enough to clear the market.It's not an explanation.

intrinsic identity, any sort of thing like that, which is really almost like it's a definition of the words.It's almost a tautological.If something's absolute, you can't relate, because absolute is the opposite of relative.

One of them is very simply to test and refine other economic theory.There's this kind of tautological sense in economics that what do people want is what they do.And what they do, well, it's what they want.

and so therefore you leave a tip.But that's kind of a tautological model that isn't very helpful.And I should say, we warned people last night.

How do you win?But obviously, it's tautologically true that if a company about which the expectations are low survive, it'll probably, at minimum,

Darwin put it in the fifth version of "Origin of the Species," and it became dogma effectively that there is survival of the fittest.Now, the fittest is a bit of a tautological argument, but it does bring in this idea that we're evolving towards better human beings.We're on this unipolar optimizing track, all right?

Synonym: motive." So when Mankiw says that people respond to incentives, what he's saying is that people are motivated by motives.You might think this is a bit like saying that "Tautologies are tautological," right?I mean, people would have to be pretty stupid to be unmotivated by motives.

Do not be fooled.at least three or four coffee shops, which, to my mind, is a definition of happiness, almost tautologically.