by ThomasSowell (Author)
Explains why fallacies abound in economic thinking and why they have such political staying power. This title describes the essential types of fallacies - the zero-sum fallacy, which assumes that one person's gain is another's equal loss; the 'fallacy of composition', the assumption that what is true of the part is true of the whole; and, more.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 31 Mar 2011
ISBN 10: 0465022030
ISBN 13: 9780465022038