Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. (Milton Friedman)

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

Milton Friedman

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