Squashed: Dumb Metaphor Friday: "Growing the pie"

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This metaphor only makes sense if we assume that pies behave in ways that pies doesn’t actually behave. The argument only makes sense if we pretend the economy behaves in similarly imaginary ways.

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    Dumb Metaphor Friday: “Growing
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  3. away-abaddon said: “The argument only makes sense if we pretend the economy behaves in similarly imaginary ways.” But that is exactly what most economists do!
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