Somebody at the NYT Has Read Bastiat

"Petty, cheesy morsels of corruption are like the proverbial “broken windows” of violent crime. If we all shrug our shoulders and look the other way, the consequences can be dire."

From a short, unsigned op-ed published in the New York Times titled “Sweat the Cheesy Stuff" which bemoans political “ethics.” As if there is such a thing.

Posted by on 03/28 at 04:47 AM

  1. I think they’re referring to the “Broken Window Effect” (i.e. as soon as a neighborhood starts allowing broken windows to go unfixed, a lot more windows get broken and other sorts of crime rise), rather than Bastiat’s Broken Window Fallacy.

    Posted by shonk  on  03/28  at  10:23 AM

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