Economics in One Lesson: Contents

Economics in One Lesson

by Henry Hazlitt

Contents

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

PART ONE: THE LESSON

1. The Lesson

PART TWO: THE LESSON APPLIED

2. The Broken Window
3. The Blessings of Destruction
4. Public Works Mean Taxes
5. Taxes Discourage Production
6. Credit Diverts Production
7. The Curse of Machinery
8. Spread-the-Work Schemes
9. Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats
10. The Fetish of Full Employment
11. Who's "Protected" by Tariffs?
12. The Drive for Exports
13. “Parity” Prices
14. Saving the X Industry
15. How the Price System Works
16. “Stabilizing” Commodities
17. Government Price-Fixing
18. What Rent Control Does
19. Minimum Wage Laws
20. Do Unions Really Raise Wages?
21. “Enough to Buy Back the Product”
22. The Function of Profits
23. The Mirage of Inflation
24. The Assault on Saving
25. The Lesson Restated

PART THREE: THE LESSON AFTER THIRTY YEARS

The Lesson After Thirty Years

A NOTE ON BOOKS

ENDNOTES