The Broken Window Fallacy
Art Carden •
Wednesday March 31, 2010 8:08 AM PDT •
Here’s an excellent (and short) video of Tom Palmer discussing the Broken Window Fallacy (HT: Steve Horwitz). It’s a venerable fallacy, but it’s one from which I hope we might be recovering. A couple of quick Google searches couldn’t turn up anyone saying that the recent earthquake in Haiti will be good for Haitian economic growth.
I had a Mises Daily a few years ago on the fallacy. Bastiat inspired Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson, which I discuss here. Here’s a series of interviews with economists on different parts of Economics in One Lesson.
Cross-Posted at the Mises Blog and Division of Labour.
Art Carden is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, Associate Professor of Economics and Business at Rhodes College.
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