The Ecological Fallacy: Robinson’s 1950 Warning That Group Averages Describe No One, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Cannot Buy GDP Growth

Navy and cream editorial cover for The Ecological Fallacy: scatter of GDP growth versus equity returns for 19 countries with a downward gold trend line, and stat chips for r = -0.39 and the 1930 census reversal

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