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There is much more truth to the argument offered by the Democrats, even if Obama and his team also deserve a fair share of the blame for pursuing inappropriate fiscal austerity in the early stages of the recovery.
But there is a problem with Kindleberger’s argument.
This argument has no basis in fact.
So is replication, the other most commonly cited argument in favor of data sharing.
The fallacy in the anti-abortion argument lies in the shift from the scientifically accurate claim that the fetus is a living individual of the species Homo sapiens to the ethical claim that the fetus therefore has the same right to life as any other human being.
The argument for free trade is an argument for welfare, but welfare defined exclusively in terms of money.
Ferguson now admits that he was wrong – that “confidence fell somewhat in the first two years under Prime Minister David Cameron” – but urges in mitigation that a “single factual error” does not invalidate “an entire argument.”
I have made an economic argument that taking money out of an economy in a slump will damage GDP growth, thereby damaging business confidence as well.
As far as I can see, Ferguson has provided no argument at all, while the factual evidence on which he relies to controvert my argument was wrong.
The argument for Palestinian statehood is anchored in a fundamentally moral claim for national self-determination.
But the prospect of an independent Palestine destabilizing Jordan is never offered as an argument against Palestinian statehood, and nor should such an argument be used against Iraq’s Kurds.
However the alleged production monopolies were used by state enterprise managers as an argument against liberalization of prices and trade, and they often won.
Wherever that argument has been accepted, inflation has been far higher than were it has been refuted.
That argument cleared the way for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan to scale back the state’s economic role and untether market forces.
During the post-war period, the fair-weather argument that market-driven prosperity justifies any collateral social pain was taken as a given; it also came to define the consensus view among the moneyed class and its ideological backers.
One traditional argument for the existence of God, the so-called "argument from design," stresses that organic parts are adapted, and argues that the only way they could have come into being is through the workings of some kind of intelligence.
I am unpersuaded by the Remain argument that leaving the EU would be economically catastrophic for Britain.
Muslim intellectuals are being encouraged to press the religious argument against fundamentalist violence in order to deprive the terrorists of their most fearsome and potent arguments.
The range of opposing interpretations of religious texts is virtually unlimited, and disputes are seldom resolved by rational argument.
But this argument is flawed: bio-plastics are very expensive and energy-intensive to produce, and still contain large amounts of material derived from oil.
The European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was born from the following apparently contradictory argument: that the discretionary powers which governments enjoy over exchange rates and financial markets are often inversely related to their ability to provide stability in those very same markets.
Because the debts of the large industrial borrowers – the UK and the US – are externally financed, the argument that their governments can always monetize debt is not convincing.
In a bleak economic climate, the argument goes, the only winners have been the wealthy, resulting in skyrocketing inequality.
The fact that Obama failed to take aggressive action, despite having recognized the need for it beforehand, is a testament to Tooze’s central argument.
It’s a simple argument, until we realize that, having saved one child by donating to an effective charity, we have the opportunity to save another, and another, and another.
This has been the basic argument behind import-substitution strategies, which use trade barriers as their main policy instrument.
With most of the country now ablaze, this argument is less convincing.
But the argument that genetic enhancements are immoral because not all children can receive them is flawed.
Finally, the argument must be made more forcefully that it will be much harder to protect our societies against the revolutionary terrorism of radical Islam without the active support of all law-abiding Muslims.
The main argument for UBI as poverty relief is, as it has always been, the inability of available paid work to guarantee a secure and decent existence for all.
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