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What does the 'unseen' part of 'The Seen and the Unseen' (Frederic Bastiat) refer to?

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Opportunity costs

Bastiat’s 'Parable of the Broken Window' explains that while fixing a window creates visible jobs, it ignores the invisible ways that money would have been spent elsewhere.

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