Economic Facts And Fallacies: Second Edition

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.

• | By (Author): Thomas Sowell
• | Publisher: Basic Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 22, 2011
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0465022030
• | ISBN-13: 9780465022038