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An edition of Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics (1946)

Economics in one lesson

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An introduction to free-market economics.

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Currency, Arlington House
Language
English
Pages
242

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Subjects
Economics, Économie politique

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1979, Arlington House Publishers
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1979, Laissez Faire Books, Fox & Wilkes
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1972, Arlington House
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1946, Harper & Brothers
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First Sentence

"Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man."

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jeff Deist. Page i
Preface to the New Edition. Page 7
Preface to the First Edition. Page 9
PART ONE. THE LESSON
I. The Lesson Page 15
PART TWO. THE LESSON APPLIED
II. The Broken Window Page 23
III. The Blessings of Destruction Page 25
IV. Public Works Mean Taxes Page 31
V. Taxes Discourage Production Page 37
VI. Credit Diverts Production Page 40
VII. The Curse of Machinery Page 49
VIII. Spread-the-Work Schemes Page 61
IX. Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats Page 67
X. The Fetish of Full Employment Page 71
XI. Who's "Protected" by Tariffs? Page 74
XII. The Drive for Exports Page 85
XIII. "Parity" Prices Page 90
XIV. Saving the X Industry Page 98
XV. How the Price System Works Page 103
XVI. "Stabilizing" Commodities Page 110
XVII. Governments Price-Fixing Page 117
XVIII. What Rent Control Does Page 127
XIX. Minimum Wage Laws Page 134
XX. Do Unions Really Raise Wages? Page 140
XXI. "Enough to Buy Back the Product" Page 152
XXII. The Function of Profits Page 159
XXIII. The Mirage of Inflation Page 164
XXIV. The Assault on Saving Page 177
XXV. The Lesson Restated Page 191
PART THREE. THE LESSON AFTER THIRTY YEARS
XXVI. The Lesson After Thirty Years Page 203
A Note on Books. Page 212
Index. Page 215

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New York, USA
Copyright Date
1979

Contributors

Book Designer
Pat Slesarchik
Foreword
Jeff Deist

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
viii, 218p.
Number of pages
242
Dimensions
21 x 13.4 x 2.1 centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL46844247M
ISBN 13
9780517548233
LCCN
78027104
OCLC/WorldCat
11576142

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