Debunking Liberal Economic Myths
Posted by: Peter Brombergs UnBlog,
on 11 Oct 2011 |
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Kevin Drum, writing in Mother Jones, proposes 5 Myths about some common economic issues that he claims arent true. Liberal writers often suffer from a kind of confirmation bias when making such statements. This is the tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true. Lets have a look at what Mr. Drum says, and Ill provide my own confirmation bias to show that the statements are either false, or not wholly...