Thursday, January 11, 2007

WOD:

argumentum ad invidiam
(An argument to envy); an appeal to low passions.

Not something I'm recommending, in case you're wondering.

I got the phrase from James Mill's defense of Say's Law against an assault by a Mandevillian Physiocrat.*

But read Sowell's A Dangerous Obsession and Dangerous Obsession II. Okay, that last is #3 of 5 on Townhall.

Looks like I need to catch up.

*Keynes could be called a Mandevillian Mercantilist.

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