The Cult of the Rebuttal

This section is to investigate various economic claims and data that Keen put forth. For instance, he refers to $331,000 dollars from Frito-Lay that was "sucked" out of the economy (p. 62). If you own stock in that company then that $331,000 was saved, not lost. Are the other costs as high as he claims? YouTube and MySpace are worth billions, but the book includes no mention of what these projects have created in terms of wealth and jobs. Use this section to elucidate the book's selective reading of the economic picture (both macro and micro).