WORK LESS Institute of Technology

WHY SOME ECONOMISTS DISLIKE SHORTER WORKING TIME

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Recent eruptions of the lump-of-labor fallacy claim
3. True believers and left-wing kooks
4. Origin of the fallacy claim
5. Puffing up the fallacy claim
6. How “fixed” is a fixed amount of work?
7. The ideals of life vs. the GDP

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