Comments on: One Lesson http://archive.mises.org/8174/one-lesson/ Proceeding Ever More Boldly Against Evil Wed, 22 May 2013 12:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: fundamentalist http://archive.mises.org/8174/one-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-333538 fundamentalist Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:15:20 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/archives/008174.asp#comment-333538 Very important lesson. Another way of putting it is to say that good economists look beyond the immediate cause of a problem. The debate over oil prices is a good example. Some people want to focus on the immediate causes and ignore the ultimate cause, money manipulation.

]]> By: EnEm http://archive.mises.org/8174/one-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-333498 EnEm Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:01:14 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/archives/008174.asp#comment-333498 The Broken Window and The Blessings of Destruction: Concepts implemented very effectively in the Iraq war by Halliburton, Bechtel and the PNAC group and blessed by “great captains of industry, by chambers of commerce, by labor union leaders, by editorial writers and newspaper columnists and radio commentators, by learned statisticians using the most refined techniques, by professors of economics in our best universities”.

A sad commentary on human action.

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