Henry Hazlitt - Economics in One Lesson
- > I am still amazed at its freshness. Although the first edition
> appeared in 1946, apart from a mere few words in it (for example, it
> holds up to ridicule the economic theories of Eleanor Roosevelt, about
> which more below) its chapter headings appear as if they were ripped
> from today’s headlines. Unless I greatly miss my guess, this will still be
> true in another 60 years from now, namely in 2068. Talk about a book
> for the ages. Other books on Austrian economics, too, are classics, and
> will be read as long as man is still interested in the subject. Mises’s
> Human Action and Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State come to mind in
> this regard. But those are epic tomes, numbering in the hundreds of
> pages. This little book of Hazlitt’s is merely an introduction, written,
> specifically, for the beginner. I wonder of how many introductions to a subject it can be truly said that they are classics? I would wager very,
> very few, if any at all.
The art ofeconomics consists in looking not merely at the immediate hut
at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that
policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
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