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And then, as one would expect, there is the motivated fallacy peddled by the defenders of the status quo.
The fallacy of this approach lies in the Muslim Brotherhood’s nature.
It does not, and this is what economists call the “lump of labor fallacy” – the idea that handing out pensions frees up employment for younger people, as if there were a fixed number of jobs to go around.
NEW YORK – Nearly 100 days after US President Donald Trump took office, he and his commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, continue to commit an economic fallacy that first-year economics students learn to avoid.
I have called this presumption a quasi-Marxist fallacy.
The US Postal Service illustrates that pitfall as well as the fallacy that mimicking the form of private enterprise can achieve the substance.
Workers were eventually absorbed by other sectors, particularly with the growth of industrial manufacturing, and average wages and overall prosperity increased dramatically – an excellent illustration of the so-called “Luddite fallacy.”
The general case of this fallacy is the “fallacy of composition”: what makes sense for each household or company individually does not necessarily add up to the good of the whole.
This fallacy – often repeated by British Prime Minister David Cameron – treats governments as if they faced the same budget constraints as households or companies.
According to this oft-repeated fallacy, governments can raise money by issuing bonds, but, because bonds are loans, they will eventually have to be repaid, which can be done only by raising taxes.
This fallacy is repeated so often that it has entered the collective unconscious.
The government must then raise taxes – and the fallacy becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
That is not true, of course: economists deride the idea that there is a given number of jobs to be divided up as the “lump of labor fallacy.”
Dawkins’ third and most fundamental fallacy is the delusion that law is about truth – “what really happened,” as he puts it.
To label a wealthy critic of extreme inequality as a hypocrite amounts to an ad hominem attack and a logical fallacy, intended to silence those whose voices could make a difference.
In fact, such an approach – which has the potential to derail agreements that would bring considerable benefits to the economies involved – is based on a fallacy.
This is a version of the fallacy that taxing companies (“capital”) spares ordinary people (“workers”).
The repeal of the tax break on overtime reflects another economic fallacy to which French Socialist politicians are deeply attached: the “lump of labor” notion that underlay the most disastrous of their economic policies – the 35-hour workweek, introduced in 2000.
Helmut Kohl, one of the euro’s principal parents, said in 1991 that “the idea of sustaining an economic and monetary union over time without political union is a fallacy.”
This is a historic fallacy.
Recognizing the significance of this strategy exposes a common fallacy whereby the global savings glut is attributed to emerging-market countries’ desire to insure themselves against financial turmoil by acquiring dollar reserves.
But this is a fallacy, and responsible leaders should begin to think of alternatives.
By 1811, he had sorted them into nearly 50 different types, with titles like “Attack us, you attack Government,” the “No precedent argument,” and the “Good in theory, bad in practice” fallacy.
(One thing on which both Immanuel Kant and Bentham agree is that this last example is a fallacy: If something is bad in practice, there must be a flaw in the theory.)
The “wisdom of our ancestors” fallacy has often been invoked in debates over same-sex marriage.
Anyone familiar with political discussion in the United States will instantly recognize a more specific version that could be called the “wisdom of the Founding Fathers” fallacy.
Another fallacy popular both in Bentham’s day and in ours is what he characterized as “What?
By “jobs,” he meant government spending, and he considered this a fallacy because blanket opposition to more government spending fails to take into account the good that the extra employees will be able to achieve.
One of these, Bentham says, in a jarring juxtaposition, “may be termed Anarchy-preacher’s fallacy – or The Rights of Man fallacy.”
To consider Islam as a civilization that is not susceptible to change is an historical fallacy.
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