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Henry Hazlitt
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born
November 28, 1894
died
July 08, 1993
gender
male
genre
Business & Investing, Politics
influences
F.A. Hayak, Ludwig von Mises, Frederic Bastiat
about this author
Henry Hazlitt was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist for various publications including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and Newsweek. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an important libertarian publication. In 1946 Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson, his seminal text on free market economics, which Ayn Rand referred to as doing a "...magnificent job of theoretical exposition." Hazlitt is credited with bringing his ideas and those of the so-called Austrian School to the American economics scene and his work has influenced the likes of economist Ludwig von Mises, novelist and essayist Ayn Rand, and 2008 Lib...more
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Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt avg rating 4.32 — 314 ratings — published 1972 8 editions |
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The Failure of the New Economics by Henry Hazlitt avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published 1983 2 editions |
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Thinking As a Science by Henry Hazlitt avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 1969 4 editions |
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Conquest of Poverty by Henry Hazlitt avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1973 3 editions |
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Time Will Run Back: A Novel About the Rediscovery of Capitalism by Henry Hazlitt avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 1986 |
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Man vs. the Welfare State by Henry Hazlitt avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1969 2 editions |
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The Foundations of Morality by Henry Hazlitt avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1973 2 editions |
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The Inflation Crisis, and How to Resolve It: Second Edition by Henry Hazlitt avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1978 2 editions |
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The Gold Clause: What It Is And How To Use It Profitably by Henry Hazlitt avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1980 |
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The Anatomy of Criticism by Henry Hazlitt avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 1933 |
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""The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.""
— Henry Hazlitt
— Henry Hazlitt
"A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing."
— Henry Hazlitt
— Henry Hazlitt
"The dilemma is this. In the modern world knowledge has been growing so fast and so enormously, in almost every field, that the probabilities are immensely against anybody, no matter how innately clever, being able to make a contribution in any one field unless he devotes all his time to it for years. If he tries to be the Rounded Universal Man, like Leonardo da Vinci, or to take all knowledge for his province, like Francis Bacon, he is most likely to become a mere dilettante and dabbler. But if he becomes too specialized, he is apt to become narrow and lopsided, ignorant on every subject but his own, and perhaps dull and sterile even on that because he lacks perspective and vision and has missed the cross-fertilization of ideas that can come from knowing something of other subjects."
— Henry Hazlitt
— Henry Hazlitt
