Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt
Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt
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Economics in One Lesson
The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

Author: Henry Hazlitt

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/13/2010

Synopsis

Called by H. L. Mencken, one of the few economists in history who could really write, Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliant but concise work. In it, he explains basic truths about economics and the economic fallacies responsible for unemployment, inflation, high taxes, and recession. Covering considerable ground, Hazlitt illustrates the destructive effects of taxes, rent and price controls, inflation, trade restrictions, and minimumwage laws. He also writes about key classical liberal thinkers like John Locke, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Herbert Spencer.

About Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993), was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Newsweek, among other publications. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine. He wrote several books and is most well known for his book Economics in One Lesson.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Riku on June 01, 2016

This is a true ‘Economics for Dummies’ book. It can be useful in case you want something handy to bang over an economic nit-wit's head on short notice. Only such a dummy would be unable to puncture your simplistic arguments or need them in the first place. Beyond that, it is hard to envisage much us......more

Goodreads review by Navid on July 20, 2024

بله، می‌دانم! ممکن است با دیدن عنوان کتاب به این فکر بیفتید که نکند این هم یکی از آن کتاب‌های عوام‌فریبانه‌ی پرفروش باشد! از آن کتاب‌های زردی که با یک عنوانِ جذب‌کننده‌ی مخاطب سعی می‌کنند مخاطب را فریب دهند، مثل «یک شبه پولدار شوید (تضمینی)» و «هفت قانون موفقیت در همه‌چیز» و «آنچه همه‌ی زنان باید در......more

Goodreads review by Toe on September 27, 2022

Abbreviated Review: stop reading my review and go read “Economics in One Lesson” right now. Full Review: In the first half of 2009, I visited several law schools before making my selection. While at Northwestern, I spoke at length with a professor who had recently worked on a paper supporting a natio......more

Goodreads review by Marcus on February 26, 2009

For a book that was written so long ago, this book is amazingly relevant to today. It clearly explains how things like stimulus packages, government subsidies, nationalization, currency inflation etc., aren't, and can't be, magic solutions that fix the economy. It gives examples of times these types......more

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