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FALLACY OF FALSE CAUSE: The logical fallacy of arguing that two events that are correlated (that is, happen at about the same time), are assumed to have a causal connection. In other words, one event causes the other. This was one of the more common fallacies committed by ancient ancestors. During the last full moon, your dog died. Obviously the full moon killed your dog. While this might seem reasonable to anyone spending their lives eating mastodon meat and sleeping in caves, it's actually the fallacy of false cause.
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INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS An economics field of study that applies both macroeconomic and microeconomic principles to international trade, which is the flow of trade among nations, and to international finance, which is the means of making payment for the exchange of goods among nations. International economics studies the economic interactions among the different nations that make up the global economy. Often this interaction is viewed in terms of the domestic economy and the foreign sector. The key economic principle underlying international economics is the law of comparative advantage.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching the newspaper want ads hoping to buy either a wall poster commemorating next Thursday or a pair of gray heavy duty boot socks. Be on the lookout for a thesaurus filled with typos.
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John Maynard Keynes was born the same year Karl Marx died.
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." -- Aristotle, Greek philosopher
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Cost of Living Index
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