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