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Categories: Articles with short description, Economics models, Classical liberalism, Parables, Informal fallacies
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parable of the broken window  Broken glass fallacy  Broken glass theory  Broken window falacy  broken window fallacy
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The parable of the broken window was introduced by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay "That Which We See and That Which We Do Not See" to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society. Wikipedia
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The parable of the broken window was introduced by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay "That Which We See and That Which We Do Not See" to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society. Wikipedia
Parable by French economist Frédéric Bastiat Wikidata
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parable
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Frédéric Bastiat
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broken windows theory
MAIN SUBJECT
Austrian School of Economics
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parable of the broken window
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Parable of the broken window
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Broken glass fallacy, Broken glass theory, Broken window falacy, broken window fallacy, Broken window fallcy, Broken windows fallacy, Fallacy of the broken window, GDP of the broken window, Glasser's fallacy, glazier's fallacy, the broken window fallacy, What is seen and what is not seen, What is seen and what is unseen

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