The theory that what is true for the individual is not necessarily true for everyone together, and what is true for everyone together does not necessarily hold for the individual.

As Justyn Walsh writes in Investing with Keynes: “Keynes’ most famous example of the ‘fallacy of composition’ was the so-called Paradox of Thrift–which notes that saving is good for the individual, ...

A key Communist Party publication on Wednesday warned that a zealous pursuit of individual department policy goals, despite their good intentions to honour Beijing’s guidelines, could backfire and ...

ECONOMIC theory warns us not to commit fallacies of composition as they result in erroneous conclusions. The fallacy can basically be viewed in two ways: 1) What is true for an individual is not ...