On Amazon.com: Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics , 1946, by Henry Hazlitt.
One of Hazlitt’s motivations for writing this book was that the U.S. Government had taken command of large swaths of the American economy during WWII. There was a not-insubstantial threat that it would not easily or readily relinquish that control.
“…the whole of economics can be reduced to a…single sentence. The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.“
You can also download a free PDF version from the Mises Institute.
Or you can enjoy this easy-to-read-in-a-web-browser version courtesy of Steven Shaw.
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