Economics in One Lesson
by:
Henry Hazlitt (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781933550213 (193355021X)
Publish date: 2009
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Pages no: 206
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...
43 years ago
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