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HES: Re: DISC--Staying Within the Bounds

Fred Foldvary (fred at foldvary.net)

Wed Jul 19 11:37:56 EDT 2006

> I wonder whether anyone has  
> thought of writing a paper on how prominent  
economists have used the term fallacy. What   
> have they regarded as fallacies? And is there any  
> consensus?  
> Pat Gunning  
  
Here is one use:  
Walker, Francis Amasa, 1883.  
"Henry George's Social Fallacies,"   
History of Economic Thought Articles,   
McMaster University Archive for the History of  
Economic Thought, vol. 127, pages 147-158, August.  
  
Fred Foldvary