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.
What Determines the Value of Money?
A critical analysis of the “equation of exchange” and the “velocity of circulation” in relation to inflation.
1Sep1976 | Henry Hazlitt | 1 comment | ContinuedWhere the Monetarists Go Wrong
The problem is not to devise a political formula to regulate the stock of money but to take such control out of the hands of politicians.
1Aug1976 | Henry Hazlitt | 4 comments | ContinuedInstead of What?
Government can’t give us anything without depriving us of something else.
1Mar1976 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Search for an Ideal Money
The trick is to keep our money out of the hands of political controllers.
1Nov1975 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | ContinuedHow Inflation Breeds Recession
Reasons why it is best to stop inflating now and return to sound economic and fiscal policies.
1Mar1975 | Henry Hazlitt | 6 comments | ContinuedYou Cannot Trust Governments with Your Money
The political problem of inflation could be broken by allowing private trading in gold.
1Jul1974 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Future of the Dollar
A review of the U.S. and internationtal departures from gold and of the prospects for a return to sound monetary policy.
1Jan1974 | Henry Hazlitt | 1 comment | ContinuedSalute to von Mises
A tribute to the greatest economist of his generation.
1Dec1973 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | ContinuedCan We Keep Free Enterprise?
An expert on the nature and practice of freedom outlines the most important challenge of our lives.
1Jun1973 | Henry Hazlitt | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Pros and Cons of Socialism
The dream of socialism is doomed to fail because it cannot solve the problem of economic calculation.
1Mar1973 | Henry Hazlitt | 8 comments | ContinuedThe Cure for Poverty
Those who truly wish to help the poor will save and invest to create more and better-paying jobs.
1Jun1972 | Henry Hazlitt | 1 comment | ContinuedWelfarism Gone Wild
Social welfare expenditures exceed $170 billion in 1971, with no end in sight.
1May1972 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Ballooning Welfare State
The higher the subsidy rate, the greater the number of claimants.
1Apr1972 | Henry Hazlitt | 1 comment | ContinuedOn Appeasing Envy
The very measures taken to appease envy often tend to aggravate it.
1Mar1972 | Henry Hazlitt | 3 comments | ContinuedShould We Divide the Wealth?
To concentrate on the division of wealth is to neglect the production upon which all else depends.
1Feb1972 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Some Are Poorer
Concerning cases of personal poverty in industrial societies and possible ways to help.
1Jan1972 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | ContinuedIMF: World Inflation Factory
The trouble with the Idea of an International Monetary Fund in 1949 is still the trouble in 1971.
1Aug1971 | Henry Hazlitt | 3 comments | Continued-
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