Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics (Audiobook)

from nancypantslady

In the current economic crisis our country is facing I felt a need to self-educate in the realm of economics, having been tragically failed by the sorry excuse for an education in economics that I received at my public high school in 12th grade. I didn't want a book that pitted me for or against ...

from PastorBob

This book should mandatory for every North American student before they graduate high school and vote. Economics does not need to to remain in the hands of elitist politicians and academics. Hazlitt cuts through the fallacies, gets to the core issues,and explains where we're going wrong, and why ...

from LisaMaria_C

Not the book to get if you've already read extensively in different schools of economics. The author isn't an economist or academic; he had less then two years of college. Rather, Hazlitt was a journalist self-taught in the discipline of economics who wrote for the New York Times The Nation and N...

from whiteberg

Excellent introduction to ("Austrian") economics. Based on Bastiat's "What Is Seen And What Is Not Seen" but has it's own tone and an American perspective. Just as relevant today as it was in 1946, and 1978 when the new edition was written. The present Obama administration is repeating all the fa...

from nittnut

It is important to note that this is not a definitive economics text, rather a primer on the principles of free markets. It is clearly written and easy to read. Hazlitt points out many fallacies in "common knowledge" and public policy regarding economics. Even though it was written in the 1940's ...