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+Economics
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+Economics is a field that is just as often ridiculed, over-simplified, or most often outright ignored.
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+Despite this economic principles underline every aspect of our world, and the general lack of understanding of this principles is the cause of many of the problems that ail mankind.
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+In issues of economic policy often (alleged) intentions are given more importance than real consequences, and the generated incentives are ignored.
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+Here are some of the most misunderstood and harmful economic ideas:
+
+* [Subsidies](subsidies)
+* [Minimum wage](minimum_wage)
+* [Rent controls](rent_controls)
+* Antitrust laws
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+
+Milton Friedman
+---------------
+
+'*If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless
+both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the
+neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixe
+d pie, that one party can only gain at the expense of another.*'
+
+'*A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives pe
+ople what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want
+. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freed
+om itself.*'
+
+'*One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programmes by their intentio
+ns rather than their results.*'
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