The BRICS Fallacy

The Manufacturing Fallacy

Indeed, Argentina's case is pathetic.

The meagre concession for Valentine s Day, enabling a pathetic export of 25,000 flowers, was just that meagre and pathetic.

This is a historic fallacy.

The Climate Change Debate s Willpower Fallacy

Presumably, our attempt at resurrecting it was pathetic and hopeless.

I have called this presumption a quasi Marxist fallacy.

Seventy years ago, John Maynard Keynes pointed out its fallacy.

To believe otherwise is to commit the fallacy of composition.

The fallacy of this approach lies in the Muslim Brotherhood s nature.

Keynes understood early on the fallacy of applying such mechanical rules.

Not even the pathetic remnant of the Khmer Rouge celebrates Pol Pot s memory.

The general case of this fallacy is the fallacy of composition what makes sense for each household or company individually does not necessarily add up to the good of the whole.

Also it proves the fallacy that war was necessary to topple Saddam.

But this is a fallacy, and responsible leaders should begin to think of alternatives.

Even Hillary Clinton, in her campaign for the US presidency, mistakenly embraced this fallacy.

The government must then raise taxes and the fallacy becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

Which is really ingenious, because we all know that T Mobile is the most pathetic carrier.

They are pathetic, deranged, and often have struggled with mental instability for much of their lives.

All I have to do is show up in my broken English, look pathetic and wanting.

This is a version of the fallacy that taxing companies ( capital ) spares ordinary people ( workers ).

Balance of nature (biological fallacy) A discredited concept of natural equilibrium in predator prey dynamics.

The Sudan firmly believes that the idea of a clash of civilizations is a fallacy.

The main questions are how authoritarian he will become, or whether this pathetic campaign will weaken him.

That pathetic contrast will inevitably lead to even greater inequality, because it will widen the existing disparities.

To consider Islam as a civilization that is not susceptible to change is an historical fallacy.

Another, related, fallacy is the assumption that reforms can reap benefits only in the long run.

So any new LDP led coalition government will be just as precarious as the last two pathetic administrations.

In the hope that it will help change behaviors. I thought myself pathetic in my failure to react.

An even more troublesome fallacy is that people tend to confuse price levels with rates of price change.

In Asia, China is exposing the fallacy of looking at state capitalism as a competing alternative to liberal capitalism.

What a pathetic ending for a man who could have become one of the most important leaders in modern Chinese history.

He would be forced to join Russia s pathetic opposition, which bears part of the blame for the country s toxic political culture.

After midnight, and after Mubarak's speech, that was more pathetic than disappointing, Tahrir Square was totally full of people and rage.

Of course, this is a fallacy when resources are scarce, but even economists never thought that growth would continue forever.

The fallacies that really challenge the modern reader, however, are those that characterize arguments that today are widely accepted even in the most educated and enlightened circles. One of these, Bentham says, in a jarring juxtaposition, may be termed Anarchy preacher s fallacy or The Rights of Man fallacy.

This fallacy is repeated so often by ignorant leaders in rich countries that it has become a major barrier to progress.

Electoral systems are precarious enough to generate pathetic situations such as that which prevailed in Mexico throughout the autumn, with its two Presidents.

The national debt is a burden on future generations. This fallacy is repeated so often that it has entered the collective unconscious.

And this pathetic performance comes at a time when many African economies agricultural sectors are booming on the back of high world food prices.

And, from the bureaucrat's point of view, his or her salary might be pathetic, but it comes with a steady stream of facilitation payments.

Given the pathetic state of the Socialist opposition, it is difficult to see what price, if any, Sarkozy will pay for his record in office.

He looks pathetic because the high court certified the March 7 election results and declared Ayad Allawi the man with the most seats in parliament.

That is a fallacy, because such steps improve competitiveness only in the same measure as they reduce domestic prices vis à vis eurozone competitors.