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Friday, November 22, 2013

Some Common Fallacies About Austerity || Robert Skidelsky





Robert Skidelsky for The Guardian

The period since 2008 has produced a plentiful crop of recycled economic fallacies, mostly falling from the lips of political leaders. Here are my four favorites.


Go read, of the four, this is my favorite.



Robert Skidelsky:
The Swabian Housewife: "One should simply have asked the Swabian housewife," said German chancellor Angela Merkel after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. "She would have told us that you cannot live beyond your means."


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