Economics in One Lesson
The Shortest and Surest Way to
Understand Basic Economics
Auteur : Henry Hazlitt Publisher :Three
Rivers Press
Page :111 Language: English
A million copy seller, Henry
Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also
much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern “libertarian”
economics of the type espoused by Ron Paul and others.
Considered among the leading
economic thinkers of the “Austrian School,” which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig
von Mises, Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), was a
libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding
vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of
The Freeman magazine, an influential libertarian publication. Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson, his
seminal work, in 1946. Concise and instructive, it is also deceptively
prescient and far-reaching in its efforts to dissemble economic fallacies that
are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy.
Many current economic commentators
across the political spectrum have credited Hazlitt with foreseeing the
collapse of the global economy which occurred more than 50 years after the
initial publication of Economics in One Lesson. Hazlitt’s focus on
non-governmental solutions, strong — and strongly reasoned — anti-deficit
position, and general emphasis on free markets, economic liberty of
individuals, and the dangers of government intervention make Economics in One
Lesson, every bit as relevant and valuable today as it has been since
publication.