That students are in the streets demonstrating against this pension reform suggests professors and politicians have failed to explain what economists call the lump-of-labor fallacy. Jobs are not fixed and do not depend exclusively on the supply of labor.
Francois Melese
François Melese is professor of economics and deputy executive director of the Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI) at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
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