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Economics as Begging the Question

January 5, 2009 | Michael Tobis

I mean “begging the question” in the original sense, of constructing a complex but ultimately circular argument that depends on the result you intend to to prove, not the unfortunate sense that it inevitably developed in casual speech of “begging for, or raising another question”.

I think great swaths of economics are based on question-begging. [more]

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