Stanley Jevons, an Economist in the Nineteenth Century, Noted a High

Multiple Choice

Stanley Jevons, an economist in the nineteenth century, noted a high correlation between economic prosperity and sunspots. Based on this observation he developed a "sunspot theory" of how the economy operated. We now know that Jevons

A) committed the fallacy of composition.
B) committed the ceteris paribus error.
C) was confusing causality.
D) showed good reasoning for the nineteenth but not the twentieth century.