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On October 3, 2003, Charles T. Munger, the major shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, gave the first lecture series Herb Kay, Department of Economics at the University of California at Santa Barbara after what, I have no doubt he was deeply applauded. Unfortunately, the lessons he taught not a single impression on the minds of participants.

Although he made many highlights, it was that economists pay too little attention to the second and higher-order effects. He stated that "this defect is quite understandable, because the consequences have consequences, and consequences of consequences have consequences, and so on. It becomes very complicated. When I was a meteorologist, I find this sort of thing very irritating. Meteorology and the economy makes it look like a tea party. "I call this practice of ignoring the consequences of the highest level of the falsity of the consequences ignored.

It is well known, of course, if we can select data to be considered, almost anything can be proved, because the ability to select the data are removed one iota, but simply to make the data up at. This error is similar to the famous statistical fallacy called confusion, although a positive correlation can often be found between the two, you never know if the correlation is not an accidental result of another correlation that is not taken into account in the data selected.

All the economists who advocate free trade globalization make this mistake, because the data are regarded as the prices of imported products. Here's an example: Dr. Steven J. Balassi, who teaches economics (MBA and undergraduate) for several San Francisco Bay area institutions, wrote in a commentary that "It depends on what perspective you take. If you take the U.S. perspective, jobs moving overseas are bad and good. They are bad for those who lose their jobs, but good for the price of the product. If you take a global perspective, trade is good. If a job is lost in America, but both are acquired in India, which is good for humanity. It is once more good in terms of product prices. "Ignore the poor syntax in the comment, indicating that the doctor himself was not a student Balassi superlative even his mother tongue, I maintain that view of economists is still too narrow.

The product price has meaning only in relation to other things, for example, income of consumers. But considering only the product price ignores other costs of international trade, which if added to the price of the benefits claimed would make him ridiculous.

For example, the BBC announced that hundreds of thousands of at-risk shippers, imported from China for mobile phones, game consoles and music devices could have made their way in the United Kingdom. Some of these chargers carry a CE safety mark which officers believe to be false. The chargers sold for about £ 5 on the Internet and about £ 6 in shops. Chargers safety, have been checked properly, retail for about £ 15. Concerns have been raised about the safety of chargers 18 months ago following the death of a British boy of seven years was found dead after using his console game magazine. Trading standards officers are trying to recall the chargers. Shippers also give electric shocks to their owners, overheat, explode and cause a fire.

If the costs of cleaning up damage caused by the recall and get rid of those injured by the treatment, and families to offset the deaths of their children posed by these products have been added to the £ 5 price, what would it cost reality of these imports? But this is a minor example.

The Black Death was carried east and west along the Silk Road by merchants. The introduction of smallpox in.