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Economics in One Lesson
by Henry Hazlitt
Contents
PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
PART ONE: THE LESSON
PART TWO: THE LESSON APPLIED
- 2. The Broken Window
- 3. The Blessings of Destruction
- 4. Public Works Mean Taxes
- 5. Taxes Discourage Production
- 6. Credit Diverts Production
- 7. The Curse of Machinery
- 8. Spread-the-Work Schemes
- 9. Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats
- 10. The Fetish of Full Employment
- 11. Who's "Protected" by Tariffs?
- 12. The Drive for Exports
- 13. “Parity” Prices
- 14. Saving the X Industry
- 15. How the Price System Works
- 16. “Stabilizing” Commodities
- 17. Government Price-Fixing
- 18. What Rent Control Does
- 19. Minimum Wage Laws
- 20. Do Unions Really Raise Wages?
- 21. “Enough to Buy Back the Product”
- 22. The Function of Profits
- 23. The Mirage of Inflation
- 24. The Assault on Saving
- 25. The Lesson Restated
PART THREE: THE LESSON AFTER THIRTY YEARS
A NOTE ON BOOKS
ENDNOTES