Two mattresses were pushed through the broken window in an effort to soften the detainees' landing.
His acerbic take on the matter is called the Broken Window Fallacy.
Rebuilding is expected to provide a major boost to GDP, though pace the parable of the broken window, the statistics may mask the economic damage.
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The broken window leaves the world poorer by one window.
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There's also a bit of the broken window fallacy at play here: Not seen is the science and investment not created by the mis-direction of resources to this or that temporarily favored project or field.
So, the next couple of items on my list were from Bastiat: the petition of the candle makers, the negative railroad, and the broken window fallacy, which led in to his discussion of the seen versus the unseen.
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His basic principle was the broken-window theory: If you don't fix one window in the building, another will be broken and then another, and eventually the whole block will be lost.
In this case, the "seen" was a shopkeeper's broken window that would create economic growth for the shopkeeper hiring a glazier to replace the window, with the glazier spending the money earned elsewhere.
Italian media reports said a car belonging to traffic police blocked the ambulance's way into the stadium and a window had to be broken so the car could be moved.
The burglars are believed to have broken into the house through a bathroom window.
Clothing and shoes were scattered through the concrete rubble, broken steel bars and shattered wooden window frames littering the streets.
Geoffrey de cided to place an old, slightly exotic-looking, artistically shaped radiator, which he had removed for a client because it was broken, in the window of his workshop, just to make it look like a shop.
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As it happened, the smell vanished as soon as the place warmed up, and it was her husband who performed all the tasks: lighting the stubborn Rayburn stove and forcing open the kitchen window, activating the bathroom plumbing and disposing of the broken-backed mice in the traps.
But now, standing on the street, looking back and forth between THAT house and the one with a boarded up, broken window that she once called home, she wonders.
Large hurricanes, like Sandy, can create clean-up jobs and stimulate GDP growth, although, as Bastiat pointed out in his Broken Window Fallacy, much of the spending will be diverted spending rather than net new spending.
He was fitting a small panel at the bottom left-hand side, a pane of bruised blue glass that showed the broken and suffering about to be transformed by light, almost the last piece in the window, when he fell.
Loss adjustors have already visited the church to survey the shattered stained glass window depicting a nativity scene, a broken 17th Century wooden pulpit, a dented lectern and, most importantly, a smashed Victorian frieze behind the altar.
Typically, the inspector will uncover many items that you can easily fix yourself, like a broken window latch or a clogged bathroom drain.
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Instead, we mostly content ourselves with grudging and sardonic references to the silly side of gentrification, along with a few all-purpose explanations, like broken-window policing.
For a trade to be broken the stock had to have moved 60% from its last price within the 20 minute window between 2:40 and 3:00 p.m.
Most famously, if one window was broken in a building and left unrepaired (his italics), soon all the other windows would be broken too, and criminal elements would take over.
Probably his next most familiar passage is his Broken Window Fallacy, whereby a broken window caused by a thrown brick would lead to a chain of new spending that would stimulate the economy.
Loftus continued her experiments, convincing study participants they had broken a window with their hand, witnessed a drug bust, choked on an object before the age of 3 and had experienced other traumatic events.
The verdict was considered an outrage, given the unambiguous evidence that police and plainclothes vigilantes had broken into the students' hostel as they slept, beating them and throwing at least one student out of a window.
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