One who is interested in fallacies might look at: Knight, F. H. (1924) "Some Fallacies in the Interpretation of Social Cost." Quarterly Journal of Economics. Reprinted in Knight (1935) The Ethics of Competition and Other Essays. University of Chicago Press. There is also the fallacy of composition: Example: if one person in a crowded theater stands up he can see better, although he is less comfortable; if all stand up nobody sees better and they are all less comfortable. In economics, this would apply to the so called preference-revelation problem in public goods theory, to the transactions cost problem due to holding out for a better deal in bilateral trade, and to copying an innovation. There is the broken window fallacy. Breaking a window creates employment and is "good for the economy." One might also search JSTOR. Pat Gunning