The parable, also known as the broken window fallacy or glazier's fallacy, demonstrates how opportunity costs, as well as the law of unintended consequences, affect economic activity in ways that are " unseen " or ignored.

Bastiat's original parable of the broken window from Ce qu ' on voit et ce qu ' on ne voit pas ( 1850 ):

Austrian theorists, and Bastiat himself, apply the parable of the broken window in a different way.

With all of these examples, care must be taken that every factor is taken into account, just as happened in the parable of the broken window: does one know all the costs and benefits?

The point of the broken window parable is to show that one cannot ignore the hidden costs of taking wealth to build the road when totalling up any such " net benefit.

It is the work for which Bastiat is most famous, along with the Petition of the Candlemakers and the parable of the broken window.

This stained glass window illustrating the parable shows the priest and the Levite in the background ( Church of St. Eutropius of Saintes | Eutrope, Clermont-Ferrand ).

One of its beautiful stained-glass windows portrays the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden at the top of the window, and, in parallel, the parable of the good Samaritan at the bottom.

Stained glass window based on the parable, Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist ( Charleston, South Carolina ) | Charleston, South Carolina.

Based on a parable by the 19th-century French economist Frédéric Bastiat, it points out that if a person broke a grocer's window then some people could argue that it was a benefit to the town, as it would provide a job for a glazier, who would then buy more from the tailor and so on.

The much-copied storyline was a parable that was metaphorically interpreted in many different ways at the outset of the Cold War.

Here, according to an allegorical parable, " The Choice of Heracles ", invented by the sophist Prodicus ( c. 400 BC ) and reported in Xenophon's Memorabilia 2. 1. 21-34, he was visited by two nymphs — Pleasure and Virtue — who offered him a choice between a pleasant and easy life or a severe but glorious life: he chose the latter.

The New Testament contains the parable of the Good Samaritan, where a man who was beaten is cared for by a Samaritan.

The album's release was preceded by the release of its first single, " Short Skirt / Long Jacket ", described as a parable about " the relationship between prosperity and the population boom ...

In support of this is the coincidence that the father and five brothers who will not be convinced even if the parable Lazarus is raised from the dead ( Luke 16: 31 ) predict that Caiaphas, Annas, and the five sons of Annas would not believe and plotted to have the real Lazarus killed when he was raised ( John 12: 10 ).

Spielberg admitted this scene triggered speculation as to whether the film was a spiritual parable.

It was the Elder who received the Etrusca Disciplina from Tages, whom he identifies as a parable.

If the Gospel of Thomas were the earliest, we would have to imagine that each of the evangelists or the traditions behind them expanded the parable in different directions and then that in the process of transmission the text was trimmed back to the form it has in the Syriac Gospels.

The meaning of the parable for Calvin was, instead, that " compassion, which an enemy showed to a Jew, demonstrates that the guidance and teaching of nature are sufficient to show that man was created for the sake of man.

This parable was one of the most popular in medieval art.

James Sallis declared that The Man Who Fell to Earth was " among the finest science fiction novels ," saying " Just beneath the surface it might be read as a parable of the Fifties and of the Cold War.

Tirso's original play was meant as religious parable against Don Juan's sinful ways, and ends with his death, having been denied salvation by God.

This belief was popularized by Joseph Turner and was based on that key Millerite passage: — the parable of the ten virgins.

The first observation was influenced by Nobel Prize winner Herbert A. Simon's parable of the two watchmakers, wherein Simon concludes that complex systems will evolve from simple systems much more rapidly if there are stable intermediate forms present in that evolutionary process than if they are not present.

Price alleged that the clip portrayed him describing his wealth in extravagant terms, when he was actually telling a parable about a rich man.

" The much-copied storyline was a parable that was interpreted in many different ways at the outset of the Cold War.

He was granted a considerable amount of creative freedom as director, authorised by Andrew Lloyd Webber to make significant changes to the dramatic structure of the musical, including replacing the running parable of Annie and Charlie Christmas told to the children by The Man with a lighter-toned number called " The Gang " ( lyrics by Don Black ).

The parable regarding Motonari, his three sons, and the lesson of the three arrows is believed have been a source of inspiration for Akira Kurosawa when he was writing his epic film Ran.

He also points out that the master in the parable speaks favorably of the " money exchangers ", telling the third servant that the least he could have done was to " put his money to the exchangers " so that the master would have been able to receive his " own " ( investment ) " with usury " ( interest ).

On the other hand, Christian leftists ( not just communists ) – such as John Cort – point out that this was a parable, and parables are by definition not intended to be taken at face value.

In the Gospel of Luke, the parable is introduced by a question, known as the Great Commandment:

Much of the work deals with ideas such as the " eternal recurrence of the same ", the parable on the " death of God ", and the " prophecy " of the Übermensch, which were first introduced in The Gay Science.

John Godfrey Saxe I ( June 2, 1816 – March 31, 1887 ) was an American poet best known for his re-telling of the Indian parable " The Blindmen and the Elephant ", which introduced the story to a Western audience.

A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.

A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.

Similarly, a city has three parts – Socrates uses the parable of the chariot to illustrate his point: a chariot works as a whole because the two horses ’ power is directed by the charioteer.

Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.

It immediately follows the Parable of the Hidden Treasure, which has a similar theme and the parable has been depicted by artists such as Domenico Fetti.

There have been several depictions of the New Testament parable in art, including works by Domenico Fetti, John Everett Millais, and Jan Luyken.

In chapter 21, the parable of the vineyard is followed by the great " stone " text, an early christological midrash of: " The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone ".

When Mannie asks him why he bought it, the Professor relates the following parable, implying that self-government is an illusion caused by failure to understand reality:

For they … by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple ", and which recounts the parable of the Good Shepherd, and provides the procedure to be followed in dealing with those who err:

Although Annas is not mentioned by name in the plot to kill Lazarus, several 19th Century writers such as Johann Nepomuk Sepp and the Abbé Drioux, considered that there may be a concealed reference to Annas in the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus which points at a " Rich man " with five sons.

His attitude is explained by Achilleus to Priam, in a parable of two jars at the door of Zeus, one of which contains good things, and the other evil.

Thus knowledge of Tages comes mainly from what is said about him by the classical authors, which is a legendary and quasi-mythical view ; Lydus suggests that Tages is only a parable.

The accounts are characterised by extensive use of allegory, metaphor, parable, hyperbole, and personification.

Another example is the parable of the lost sheep, which is paralleled by Matthew, Luke, John, and Thomas.

The parable of the Good Samaritan is a parable told by Jesus and is mentioned in only one of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament.

Bernard Brandon Scott, a member of the Jesus Seminar, questions the authenticity of the parable's context, suggesting that " the parable originally circulated separately from the question about neighborliness " and that the " existence of the lawyer's question in and, in addition to the evidence of heavy Lukan editing " indicates the parable and its context were " very probably joined editorially by Luke.