The parable of the broken window was introduced by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay "That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen"...
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In criminology, the broken windows theory states that visible signs of crime, antisocial behavior and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages...
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Modern parables also exist. A mid-19th-century example, the parable of the broken window, criticizes a part of economic thinking. A parable is a short...
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Frédéric Bastiat (redirect from Petition of the candlemakers)
concept of opportunity cost and introduced the parable of the broken window. He was described as "the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived"...
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Parable of the Sower is a 1993 speculative fiction novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler. It is set in a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by...
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The Stanley Parable is a 2013 story-based video game designed and written by developers Davey Wreden and William Pugh. The game carries themes such as...
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alleviate unemployment. Indivisibility of labour Labour (economics) Luddite fallacy Parable of the broken window Robot tax Technological unemployment Working...
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drops Jeff out of his window. Thorwald confesses his wife's murder to the police. A few days later, the heat wave has broken, and life in the apartment complex...
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Lesson. It is the work for which Bastiat is most famous, followed by the candlemaker's petition and the parable of the broken window. In The Law, Bastiat...
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Military Keynesianism (category History of economic thought)
Military budget of the United States Military–industrial complex Parable of the broken window Perpetual war Ultra-imperialism War economy Custers, Peter (2010)...
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International development (redirect from United States initiation of reconstruction)
and especially its convenient but flawed quantification (see parable of the broken window) through readily gathered (for developed countries) or estimated...
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Unintended consequences (redirect from The Law of Unintended Consequences)
hazard – Increases in the exposure to risk when insured, or when another bears the cost Parable of the broken window – Parable by French economist Frédéric...
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Recycling (redirect from The paper cycle)
programs to help support the poor. Like the parable of the broken window, there is a net loss to the poor and possibly the whole of a society to make recycling...
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optimization No Free Lunch (organization) No-arbitrage bounds Parable of the broken window Revealed preferences Scarcity Tax choice Trade-off Zero-sum game...
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release, but the project did not materialise. Super Troopers Parable of the broken window "Kopps". Swedish Film Database. 7 February 2003. Retrieved 21...
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The Parable of the Pearl (also called the Pearl of Great Price) is one of the parables of Jesus Christ. It appears in Matthew 13 and illustrates the great...
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Conscription (redirect from The Draft)
Milton Friedman the cost of conscription can be related to the parable of the broken window in anti-draft arguments. The cost of the work, military service...
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economics Regenerative economic theory Parable of the broken window Orr, C.J. (2018). "Uneconomic Growth". Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene: 277–285. doi:10...
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Dead-end job Economies of scale Econometrics Fear of missing out Lost sales No such thing as a free lunch Parable of the broken window Production–possibility...
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Crop destruction (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
burning of money for effectPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Crop circle – Pattern in a crop field Parable of the broken window – Parable...
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Output (economics) – Overhead (business) Pacman conjecture – Parable of the broken window – Pareto efficiency – Participatory economics – Peltzman effect...
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of the modern Austrian school.[unreliable source?] Austrian School Parable of the broken window Physiocrats "Forerunners of the Austrian School: The French...
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Car Allowance Rebate System (category Road transportation in the United States)
in the top 10. The following table provides the actual rankings of vehicles that were claimed for destruction in the program: Parable of the broken window...
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Creative destruction (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
International Innovation Index Parable of the broken window Product lifecycle Pseudowork Schumpeterian rent "Schumpeter's Theory of Creative Destruction - Engineering...
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Technological unemployment (redirect from Relationship of automation to unemployment)
Humans Need Not Apply Industrial society Lucas Plan Lump of labor fallacy Parable of the broken window Player Piano Post-work society Robot tax Salary inversion...
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Vehicle scrappage scheme (category Recycling in the United Kingdom)
selected UK cities over the next three years. Cash for Clunkers — an analogous scheme in the United States Parable of the broken window Scrappage program "Plug-in...
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special issue of the European Journal of Applied Mathematics devoted to "crime modelling"). Broken windows theory Parable of the broken window Crime prevention...
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Scrappage program (section The Netherlands)
Gas-guzzler Parable of the broken window Total number of allowed certificates. "About The Program". Retire Your Ride. Archived from the original on 10...
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Say's law (redirect from The Law of Markets)
perspective Fiscal policy List of eponymous laws Parable of the broken window Treasury view, a related critical view of fiscal policy Walras' law Say 1834...
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cost Output Parable of the broken window Pareto efficiency Price Price discrimination Price elasticity of demand Price points Outline of industrial organization...
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