Tag: Piety fallacy
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Economic Fallacies: “The Piety Fallacy”
The Piety fallacy is uncritical action based on pietistic interpretations of scripture without regard to actual outcomes resulting from those actions. This fallacy has a variety of expressions. In the previous post, I pointed to the jubilee code in Leviticus 25 and its use in the debate over debt cancellation and wealth distribution in developing…