He was often exasperated by the inconsistencies in Keynes' work and his tendency to change his mind - something the Cambridge economist did quite regularly, and not only "when the facts changed".
But Lord Layard's argument implies that people have a tendency to work too much.
Who admits to actually liking negative advertising despite the fact that these ads have a tendency to work, particularly for a candidate who is trailing in the race?
According to his interviews with supermarket staff he has found that there is a tendency for check-out workers to work below an "average" speed.
There is a natural tendency at such moments to look forward and try to work out what events in New York might mean for the future of the two-state solution and relations between Israelis and Palestinians in general.
Even with reams of supporting data it is vital to step back, employ some common sense, and ask why a tendency (because some are just that, tendencies) may work.
Watching his choreographic work, though, I noticed some not so entertaining tropes: Ashford had a tendency to present his female dancers as types vamp, ditz, and so on rather than as full-bodied characters.
It is this architecture that seems to imbue those that work with the web with a culture of free expression, a belief in universal access and a tendency toward decentralising information.
The natural tendency of employees in a situation like this would be, at the very least, not to work very hard if, in fact, they showed up for work at all.
Indeed the opposite tendency is sometimes evidence: when society or the economy changes, ways of acting that used to work most of the time now may no longer work at all.
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Couple that with the tendency of patients with pain to want to try the new thing, because none of the existing treatments work that well.
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