3 economic myths most people still believe in.

Unlearning Economics has a brief but succint list of estabilished economic myths and why they are wrong.

• Rich countries did not get rich through free trade, but through the use of protectionism and other state interventions such as capital controls and subsidies.[...]
• Money did not arise as a solution to the ‘double coincidence of wants[...]
• Peasants did not freely move from their land into 12+ hour days in factories because it was ‘better than the alternative.[...]

Worth a read.