Economics in one lesson

Opis książki:

THE FIRST EDl Tl ON of this book appeared in 1946. Eight translarions were madę of it, and there were numerous paperback editions. In a paperback of 1961, a new chapter was added on rent control, which had not been specifically considered in the first edition apart from government price-fixing in general. A few statistics and illustrative references were brought up to date.
Otherwise no changes were madę untii nów. The chief reason was that they were not thought necessary. My book was written to emphasize generał economic principles, and the penalties of ignoring them—not the harm done by any specific piece of legislation. While my illustrations were based mainly on American experience, the kind of government interventions I deplored had become so internationalized that I seemed to many foreign readers to be particularły describing the economic policies of their own countries.

Nevertheless, the passage ofthirty-two years nów seems to me to cali for extensive revision. In addition to bringing all illustrations and statistics up to datę, I have written an entirely new chapter on rent control; the 1961 discussion nów seems inadequate. And I have added a new finał chapter, "The Lesson After Thirty Years," to show why that lesson is today more desperately needed than ever.
H.H.
Wilton, Conn.
June 1978

Książka "Economics in one lesson" - Henry Hazlitt - oprawa miękka - Wydawnictwo Arlington House Publishers.