Hazlitt, Henry, 1894-1993

Economics in one lesson / Title on cover: Economics in one lesson : the shortest & surest way to understand basic economics Shortest and surest way to understand basic economics Henry Hazlitt. - New York : Three Rivers Press, c1979. - 218 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-214) and index.

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

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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Economics.
Economía

HB 171 / H431e 1979