I mentioned that too when you first started exposing the fallacy of the belief that it was a widespread fallacy. Counterfactual oversimplifications can often be useful in understanding reality. Engineers uses calculations assuming perfect elasticity or what have you on occasion, then do corrections. I suspect that the lump-of-labor is a useful approximation in a lot cases.
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Ryan Avent at the Economist: > > "It may be reading too much into recent experience, but one could also > argue that under certain constraints the lump of labour fallacy is no > fallacy at all. " > > http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/01/labour-markets > > Cheers, > > Tom Walker (Sandwichman) > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com
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