Archive for Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) was a noted economist, author, editor, reviewer, and columnist. His best-known books are Economics in One Lesson, The Failure of the “New Economics,” The Foundations of Morality, and What You should Know About Inflation.

The ABC of a Market Economy

Henry Hazlitt, a frequent contributor to The Freeman, has been a Trustee of The Foundation for Economic Education from its beginning in 1946. He is a noted economist, author, editor, reviewer and columnist. Best known of his numerous books is Economics in One Lesson, first published in 1946, with ten translations and with American sales [...]

1Feb1985 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

The Early History of FEE

Henry Hazlitt has a long and distinguished career as economist, journalist, author, editor, and literary critic. This article is excerpted from his remarks at the Leonard E. Read Memorial Conference on Freedom, November 18, 1983. I’ve been invited to share some recollections about the early days of the Foundation for Economic Education. It must have [...]

1Mar1984 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

Economic Forecasting: How Good Is It?

Henry Hazlitt, a frequent contributor to The Freeman, has a long and distinguished career as an economist, journalist, editor, and literary critic. Best known of his numerous books is Economics in One Lesson, originally published in 1946 and translated into ten languages with sales of more than 700,000 copies. The recently revised edition is once [...]

1Dec1983 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

How Obscene Are Profits?

Henry Hazlitt, a frequent contributor to The Freeman, has a long and distinguished career as an economist, journalist, editor, and literary critic. Best known of his numerous books is Economics in One Lesson, originally published in 1946 and since translated into ten languages with sales of more than 700,000 copies. The recently revised edition is [...]

1Oct1983 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

Why Anticipation Grows

A correspondent who describes himself as “a 26-year old college graduate who strongly supports a system of free enterprise,” recently wrote me to say that he is “continuously confronted with questions that are most difficult to answer.” He appended a list of 10 of them, and asked for my comments. I offer my answer here. [...]

1Jul1983 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

Market Prices vs. Communist Commands

Henry Hazlitt, a frequent contributor to The Freeman, has a long and distinguished career as an economist, journalist, editor, and literary critic. Best known of his numerous books is Economics in One Lesson, originally published in 1946 and since translated into eight languages with sales of more than 700,000 copies. The recently revised edition is [...]

1Feb1983 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

Keynesianism in a Nutshell

Henry Hazlitt, a frequent contributor to The Freeman, has a long and distinguished career as an economist, journalist, editor, and literary critic. Best known of his numerous books is Economics in One Lesson, originally published in 1946 and since translated into eight languages with sales of more than 700,000 copies. The recently revised edition is [...]

1Nov1982 | Henry Hazlitt | 11 comments | Continued

Planning vs. The Free Market

Henry Hazlitt, among so many notable accomplishments, is the author of the best-selling and recently revised Economics in One Lesson.       At the 1962 meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in Knokke, Belgium, he delivered an address, “’Planning’ vs. the Free Market,” which appeared in The Freeman of December 1962. The issue continues [...]

1May1981 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

When Water Is Scarce

As I write this, New York City, Greenwich, Connecticut, and many towns in New Jersey, are faced with a water shortage. Universally their officials are ascribing this shortage to “lack of rain.” That is certainly one cause. But there is another no less important. Water is distributed and consumed on socialistic principles. In New York [...]

1Apr1981 | Henry Hazlitt | 1 comment | Continued

Understanding Austrian Economics

Henry Hazlitt, a frequent contributor to The Freeman, has a long and distinguished career as an economist, journalist, editor, and literary critic. Best known of his numerous books is Economics in One Lesson, originally published in 1946 and since translated into eight languages with sales of more than 700,000 copies. The recently revised edition is [...]

1Feb1981 | Henry Hazlitt | 2 comments | Continued

The Sphere of GovernmentNineteenth Century Theories: 3. Thomas Henry Huxley

Henry Hazlitt, noted economist, author, editor, reviewer and columnist, here continues a series of nineteenth century theories on the sphere of government. Thomas Henry Huxley was primarily a biologist, second only in eminence in the nineteenth century to Charles Darwin, whose theories of evolution he defended with such pertinacity and effectiveness that he was popularly [...]

1Oct1980 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

How to Return to Gold

Henry Hazlitt, noted economist, author, editor, reviewer and columnist, is well known to readers of the New York Times, Newsweek, The Freeman, Barton’s, Human Events and many others. For more on inflation, see his recent book, The Inflation Crisis, and How to Resolve It. The economic letter of the Texas Commerce Bank, dated April 18, [...]

1Sep1980 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

The Sphere of Government Nineteenth Century Theories: 2. Herbert Spencer

Henry Hazlitt, noted economist, author, editor, reviewer and columnist, here continues a series of nineteenth century theories on the sphere of government. The views of John Stuart Mill were discussed in the January 1980 issue of The Freeman. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was the nineteenth century’s philosopher of evolution. He aspired to universal knowledge. What he [...]

1Aug1980 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

The Sphere of Government: Nineteenth Century Theories: 1. John Stuart Mill

The late Henry Hazlitt, noted economist, author, editor, reviewer and columnist, was well known to readers of the New York Times, Newsweek, The Freeman, Barron’s, Human Events and many others. Among his numerous books are The Inflation Crisis and How to Resolve It and Economics in One Lesson. I remarked in “The Case for the [...]

1Jan1980 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

Profits and Payrolls: 1978

The latest figures on the per cent of corporate income available to employees and to shareholders.

1Dec1979 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued

The Case for the Minimal State

Natural law versus the doctrine of utility as the foundation of morality and of limited government.

1Nov1979 | Henry Hazlitt | 1 comment | Continued

Profits and Payrolls

How the employees of corporations compare with stockholders in the distribution of income.

1Aug1979 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | Continued
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