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# Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

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## Customer Reviews

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    Must Read!
  

*by L***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2018*

This book should be REQUIRED READING for anyone who works, pays taxes, or votes. Yes, that means YOU! I have a Bachelors degree in Economics and I can honestly say that I got (and retained) more from this book than from my four-year college program.If you have even a passing interest in Economics, pick up this book. You’ll be glad you did!

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    This book is easy to read but it is not "partisan"
  

*by K***D on Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2018*

Hazlitt's book is mainly a commentary on Bastiat's What is seen and unseen essay, but his examples are clear and convincing.  The book was last updated in 1978, but several chapters are highly relevant to the tariff and immigration arguments raging today.  Hazlitt's insights into the harmful effects of continual inflation and an aversion to profits for private firms are also relevant to today's most important issues.  This book is easy to read but it is not "partisan".  Nor is it ideological.  Hazlitt does a good job of using facts to support his claims.  Some will not agree with his conclusions, but no one can claim that Hazlitt presents a deliberately biased or unbalanced case.  A poor understanding of economics underlies many bad decisions which have been made over the past 80 years.  Hazlitt's book is one step in the educational process needed to repair the damage done.

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    Gift Suggestion for Generations X, Y (Millennials) & Z
  

*by J***K on Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2019*

The author, Henry Hazlitt, was born in 1894 and wrote the first version of this book in 1946. The prose is clearly of an earlier generation, so some might complain about readability. But it is a 5" x 8" book containing 200 pages. Get over it.The best thing about the book is Hazlitt's reasoned address of life-cycle ramifications of spending decisions. No dry lectures on supply and demand or capital allocation. Hazlitt teaches these concepts through stories of common societal issues. He predicts outcomes through reasoned arguments. The reader can accept or reject Hazlitt's reasoning, but can't walk away uninformed by a different way of thinking.  Hazlitt asks the reader to consider what happens next ... and next ... and next...when government (the taxpayer) deliberately inserts itself into a free market system.  He drops a pebble in a still pond and gives a name to each ripple that radiates from the disturbance. Extrapolating, "Free" is just a pebble - it is the inevitable ripples that must be named and accepted with eyes (and history books) wide open if determined to proceed.Hazlitt was a Libertarian and makes no apologies for his preference that government interfere in an economy only when the public good is incontrovertible. That said, he often acknowledges that it is legitimate to make exceptions. These acknowledgement always come with the exhortation that outcomes are reasonably predictable and interference in the natural process comes with peril that must be clearly understood and accounted for before proceeding.  Accept his theses or not,  you won't finish this book without an alternative understanding of long term effects of capital allocation decisions - public and private. An added benefit is that readers will gain some insight into why fiscal conservatives are so cranky all the time. Alternatively, cranky fiscal conservatives will get to exclaim: "See there!! I'm right!!"On a personal note: I gave copies of this book to my children and nephews.  During their working years, Gens X, Y (Millennial), and Z will most likely inherit an unimaginably swollen public debt. Their life experience so far is that the Keynesian "circle of government spending" cannot, by design, go off the rails.  If it becomes a train wreck, I want those in my family to understand this different perspective of economic effects of government involvement in the life of a society. The Austrian school of economics used in Hazlitt's stories is not "The One Truth" some people assert, but it needs to be equally understood by those that, in their lifetime, will be left holding the bag.

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