Economics in One Lesson
A new trade paperback edition of the 50th anniversary edition of this classic work. This edition is NOT the same as other editions and was updated and has new material.
A new trade paperback edition of the 50th anniversary edition of this classic work. This edition is NOT the same as other editions and was updated and has new material.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780930073190 (0930073193)
Publish date: September 25th 2008
Publisher: Laissez Faire Books
Pages no: 205
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Business,
Economics,
Education,
Politics,
Philosophy,
College,
Government
Not the book to get if you've already read extensively in different schools of economics. The author isn't an economist or academic; he had less then two years of college. Rather, Hazlitt was a journalist self-taught in the discipline of economics who wrote for the New York Times The Nation and News...
Great book I first read it years ago in my first econ class and I still use it on a regular basis to remind me of basic principles.
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...
I used to have a black and white photo of Hazlitt and me, taken while he was signing my copy. Yeah, I', old...
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