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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hazlitt, Henry, 1894-1993. Economics in one lesson. New York, London, Harper & Brothers [1946] (OCoLC)645772220 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry Hazlitt |
OCLC Number: | 167574 |
Notes: | "First edition." |
Description: | xi, 222 pages 20 cm |
Contents: | Part I: Lesson. Lesson -- Part II: Lesson applied. Broken window -- Blessings of destruction -- Public works mean taxes -- Taxes discourage production -- Credit diverts production -- Curse of machinery -- Spread-the-work schemes -- Disbanding troops and bureaucrats -- Fetish of full employment -- Who's protected by tariffs -- Drive for exports -- "Parity" prices -- Saving the X industry -- How the price system works -- "Stabilizing" commodities -- Government price-fixing -- Minimum wage laws -- Do unions really raise wages -- Enough to buy back the product -- Function of profits -- Mirage of inflation -- Assault on saving -- Part III: Lesson restated. Lesson restated. |
Responsibility: | by Henry Hazlitt. |
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Economics in one Lesson - A Conservative View
This short critique of (m)any form(s) of economic policies is a must read for conservatives and liberals alike. The former will find their views reinforced, while the latter will benefit from a first hand outline of their opponents arguments.
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