Henry Hazlitt Knihy

Pokud by kapitalismus neexistoval, bylo by nezbytné ho vynalézt – a tento objev by se právem zařadil mezi největší objevy v dějinách lidstva. To je hlavním poselstvím mé knihy. Ale protože je kapitalismus zkrátka pojmenováním pro svobodu v ekonomické sféře, poselství knihy lze rozšířit: touha po svobodě nemůže být nikdy permanentně vymazána.

Úspěšná kniha pro každého, kdo chce pochopit základní principy fungování ekonomiky. Zajímavě vysvětluje podstatu hospodářských činností, ekonomických jevů a procesů jako součásti obecnějších společenských problémů. Srozumitelně, logicky a přesvědčivě a při tom bez použití jediné rovnice autor vysvětluje a na konkrétních případech ilustruje základní ekonomické činnosti a vyvrací nejčastější omyly a mýty.

Hazlitt meticulously critiques Keynes's "General Theory," which transformed economic thought during the Great Depression by advocating for government intervention. He argues that Keynes's ideas undermine fundamental economic principles, claiming that they promote instability and challenge the concept of sound money. Through a detailed line-by-line analysis, Hazlitt exposes the flaws in Keynesian economics, providing a robust defense of conservative and libertarian principles. This comprehensive work serves as a powerful rebuttal, aiming to dismantle the prevailing Keynesian paradigm.

Hazlitt worked as a journalist for the New York Sun , The Nation , the New York Times , and Newsweek . He is credited with bringing Austrian economics to an English-speaking audience. Hazlitt was a prolific writer, authoring some 25 books in his lifetime.

An excellent volume by an eminent journalist and author which presents a history of inflation, an explanation of its causes, an analysis of the misconceptions and fallacies that prevail about it, the outlook for more of it, and advice regarding what the reader can and cannot do to protect himself or herself against it. The author recognizes the strength of the political forces that continue it, and the urgent need of the re-establishment of an international gold standard. A first-rate analysis for everyone seeking protection against the consequences of inflation. Originally published by Arlington House in 1978.

Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century. The target here is John Maynard Keynes's General Theory, the book that appeared in 1936 and swept all before it. In economic science, Keynes changed everything. He supposedly demonstrated that prices don't work, that private investment is unstable, that sound money is intolerable, and that government was needed to shore up the system and save it. It was simply astonishing how economists the world over put up with this, but it happened. He converted a whole generation in the late period of the Great Depression. By the 1950s, almost everyone was Keynesian. But Hazlitt, the nation's economics teacher, would have none of it. And he did the hard work of actually going through the book to evaluate its logic according to Austrian-