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It's known as proximate and ultimate causation. [0] An Aristotelian analysis would say the fraudulent system or its corruption was the final cause, the models were the formal cause. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_and_ultimate_causation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_and_ultimate_causatio...