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Author: Henry-Hazlitt: 54 records
About Henry Hazlitt
1894 - 1993
Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993) was a well-known journalist who wrote on economic affairs for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek, among many other publications. He is perhaps best known as the author of the classic Economics in One Lesson (1946).
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Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt Updated 1/21/2013
Henry Hazlitt wrote this book following his stint at the New York Times as an editorialist. His hope was to reduce the whole teaching of economics to a few principles and explain them in ways that people would never forget. It worked. He relied on so... -
The Foundations of Morality
Henry Hazlitt Updated 6/28/2012
Here is Hazlitt's major philosophical work, in which he grounds a policy of private property and free markets in an ethic of classical utilitarianism, understood in the way Mises understood that term. In writing this book, Hazlitt is reviving an... -
From Bretton Woods to World Inflation: A Study of Causes and Consequences
Henry Hazlitt Updated 2/24/2012
Henry Hazlitt was a leading editorialist for the New York Times from 1934 until 1946. His career at the paper, however, abruptly ended because of the articles collected in this book. He closely covered the Keynesian-inspired Bretton Woods Agreement o... -
Will Dollars Save the World?
Henry Hazlitt Updated 2/24/2012
Henry Hazlitt had left the New York Times in an ideological disagreement over post-war economic policy. Once he left, he was free to speak his mind on the important issues of the day, among which the Marshall Plan. This is his blockbuster argument... -
What You Should Know About Inflation
Henry Hazlitt Updated 1/11/2012
The book's title—What You Should Know About Inflation—only hints at the extent of the issues that Hazlitt addresses. He presents the Austrian theory of money in the clearest possible terms, and contrasts it with the fallacies of government manage... -
The Conquest of Poverty
Henry Hazlitt Updated 12/19/2011
Long before Charles Murray took on the topic, Henry Hazlitt wrote an outstanding book on poverty that not only provided an empirical examination of the problem but also presented a rigorous theory for understanding the relationship between poverty an... -
Business Tides: The Newsweek Era of Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt Updated 11/28/2011
A lone voice of economic sanity in the United States after World War II was Henry Hazlitt, who had moved in 1946 from the New York Times editorial page to Newsweek magazine, where he wrote until the late 1960s. He wrote a column every week on the mos... -
Thinking as a Science
Henry Hazlitt Updated 10/3/2011
It's incredible that this 1916 tutorial on how to think, by none other than Henry Hazlitt, would still hold up after all these years. But here's why. Hazlitt was largely self-educated. He read voraciously. He trained himself to be a great int... -
The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt Updated 7/28/2011
The master economics teacher, the author of Economics in One Lesson, moves his readers to a deeper knowledge of a range of topics in this outstanding collection of essays. In the late 1990s, Hans Sennholz carefully selected 30 of Hazlitt's art... -
The Inflation Crisis, and How To Resolve It
Henry Hazlitt Updated 7/9/2011
Prices are rising, as they inevitably must with an expansionary policy, and who is getting the blame? Not the Fed. Commentators claim it's the weather or foreigners with greedy appetites for goods. It has always been so: when the inflation ar... -
The Free Man's Library
Henry Hazlitt Updated 6/25/2011
Henry Hazlitt did an incredible thing with this book. He created in a mere 180 pages an anthology of short reviews of 550 books on economics and politics, old and new, from the point of view of an Austro-libertarian. Hazlitt wrote it because he bel... -
The Way to Will Power
Henry Hazlitt Updated 6/22/2011
What a thrilling little treasure this is, a completely rediscovered book by Henry Hazlitt from 1922 This is Hazlitt before he became an advocate of the Austrian School, and here he is not writing on economics but personal ethics as informed by anc... -
Man vs. The Welfare State
Henry Hazlitt Updated 4/28/2011
In this 1969 work, Henry Hazlitt explains why politicians who promise salvation through government are dangerous. Among the essays: Instant Utopia Salvation Through Government Spending "We Owe It To Ourselves" Consequences of Dollar Deba... -
Failure of the 'New Economics'
Henry Hazlitt Updated 4/15/2011
Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century. T... -
The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue
Henry Hazlitt Updated 5/15/2010
When Henry Hazlitt published this exceedingly rare book, he was finishing up a three-year position at The Nation as literary critic, and preparing to accept the position as H.L. Mencken's successor at American Mercury. He was struggling with... -
Time Will Run Back
Henry Hazlitt Updated 4/20/2010
Here is a splendid novel by Henry Hazlitt, first published in 1951 and revised in 1966. The plot line explores the economic theories of capitalism and socialism. It begins in a fully socialist society in which the new leader, who finds himself in... -
The Freeman February 1954 B
Henry Hazlitt Updated 7/13/2009
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The Freeman January 1954 B
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The Freeman September 1953 B
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The Freeman September 1953
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The Freeman August 1953 B
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The Freeman Feburary 1953 B
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