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" Economics in one lesson / "
Henry Hazlitt
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BL
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630258
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| Main Entry
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Hazlitt, Henry,1894-1993
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Economics in one lesson /\ Henry Hazlitt
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Three Rivers Press,, c1979
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218 p. ;; 23 cm
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9780517548233 (pbk.)
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: 0517548232 (pbk.)
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0517548232 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-214) and index
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| Contents
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The lesson -- The broken window -- The blessings of destruction -- Public works mean taxes -- Taxes discourage production -- Credit diverts production -- The curse of machinery -- Spread-the-work schemes -- Disbanding troops and bureaucrats -- The fetish of full employment -- Who's "protected" by tariffs? -- The drive for exports -- "Parity" prices -- Saving the X industry -- How the price system works -- "Stabilizing" commodities -- Government price-fixing -- What rent control does -- Minimum wage laws -- Do unions really raise wages? -- "Enough to buy back the product" -- The function of profits -- The mirage of inflation -- The assault on saving -- The lesson restated
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Economics
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HB171.H445 1979c
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| Parallel Title
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Economics in one lesson : the shortest & surest way to understand basic economics
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: Shortest and surest way to understand basic economics
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