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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry Hazlitt |
| ISBN: | 0517548232 9780517548233 0870004271 9780870004278 |
| OCLC Number: | 27070959 |
| Description: | 218 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface to the New Edition -- Preface to the first edition -- The Lesson -- The Broken Window -- The Blessings of Destruction -- Public Works mean taxes -- Taxes discourage production -- Credit diverts production -- The Curse of Machinery -- Spread -the-work Schemes -- Disbanding troops and Bureacrats -- The Fetish of Full Employment -- Who's "Protected" by Tariffs? -- The Drive for exports -- "Parity" prices -- Saving the x Industry -- How the price system works -- "Stabilizing" Commodities -- Government Price fixing -- What rent control does -- Minimum wage laws -- Do Unions really raise wages? -- "Enough to buy back the product" -- The Function of Profits -- The Mirage of inflation -- The Assault on Saving -- The Lesson Restated -- The Lesson after thirty years -- A note on Books -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Henry Hazlitt. |
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Abstract:
This revised and updated edition of Hazlett's well-regarded exposition of general economic principles examines, in layman's terms, the effects of inflation, recession, and the growing tax revolt.
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