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★★★銷量突破100萬冊的經濟學入門寶典！★★★ 如果你只想看一本經濟學的書，就是這一本！ 吳惠林（中華經濟研究院研究員） 林明仁（台大經濟系特聘教授） 楊少強（《商業周刊》副總主筆） 熊秉元（前台大經濟系教授） 薛琦（前台灣證券交易所董事長） 專業推薦 本書作者赫茲利特──堪稱二十世紀美國最偉大的經濟專欄作家，教給我們經濟學最重要的一課： 「經濟學的藝術就是：不只觀察任何行動或政策的立即影響，更要看較長遠的影響；不只追蹤政策對某個群體產生的影響，更要看對所有群體造成的影響。」 然而就在這一點上，人們，甚至是政府，常常犯錯，或者明知故犯。好經濟學和壞經濟學的分野就在這裡。壞經濟學家只看到觸目所及的事情；好經濟學家卻看得更遠。壞經濟學家只觀察計畫中的行動產生的直接結果；好經濟學家卻也放眼更長遠的間接結果。壞經濟學家只注意政策對某個特殊群體已經產生或將要產生的影響；好經濟學家還會去深究政策對所有的群體產生的影響。 以這一堂課為基礎，作者舉了許多日常可見的實際例子，例如公共建設、課稅、授信、失業、關稅、最低工資、價格管制、工會、工資、利潤、儲蓄、通貨膨脹等等，以最淺顯的方式告訴讀者，這些複雜的經濟問題背後的真相、什麼樣的經濟政策會造成什麼樣的結果，以及，真正學會這一課經濟學。 經濟事務影響我們每一個人，本書可以幫助你更了解經濟世界運作的法則，不再被政府或「專家」的花言巧語所矇騙。 各版本專業推薦： 每個人時間有限，資源要花在邊際效益最高的用途。若想了解經濟學，已被市場與時間考驗過的《一課經濟學》，就是最優選擇。 ——楊少強，《商業周刊》副總主筆 我對這本書有什麼期許？有，一是它該被列為所有經濟學原理課程的補充讀物，二是所有政府官員在思考提出經濟政策之前應該翻翻這本書，看看能不能說服自己那項政策的必要性。 ——薛琦，前台灣證券交易所董事長 這本歷久彌新的書，告訴我們為什麼有些最受歡迎的政策不對，而有些最受批評的現象其實對社會是有利的。這本《一課經濟學》，是一課必修的經濟學 ——張清溪，已故台大經濟系教授 本書以淺顯易懂的文字取代高深的經濟學術語與方程式，清楚地闡析了經濟學經過半世紀以上之試煉，去蕪存菁了的經濟學概念，值得推薦。 ——吳榮義，新台灣國策智庫董事長、前行政院副院長 精彩絕倫。書中所談，正是最需要一談的事情，而且是以罕見的勇往直前態度去談這些事情。就我所知，當今找不到其他的書，能讓聰明的初學者，在那麼短的時間內，學到那麼多基本的經濟真理。 —─海耶克（F.A. Hayek），諾貝爾經濟學獎得主 亨利‧赫茲利特解釋價格體系如何運作，真的是經典之論：歷久彌新、正確無誤、一目瞭然。 ──米爾頓‧傅利曼（Milton Friedman），諾貝爾經濟學獎得主 如此簡明清楚有力的一本書……我們可以說，它形塑了這個世界。 ──史提夫‧富比士（Steve Forbes），富比士總裁兼雜誌總編輯 他是人類歷史上，極少數文采斐然的經濟學家之一。 ──孟肯（H. L. Mencken），美國語言學家、知名新聞記者

Explore the fundamental issues of political philosophy with this penetrating book by Henry Hazlitt. Challenging conventional wisdom and questioning the assumptions of political discourse, Hazlitt raises important ethical and epistemological questions that are often ignored in political debates. With its clear, concise style and timeless insights, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in politics and ethics. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Henry Hazlitt escribió este libro tras su paso por el New York Times como editorialista. Su esperanza era reducir toda la enseñanza de la economía a unos pocos principios y explicarlos de forma que la gente nunca los olvidara. Y funcionó. Se basó en algunos relatos de Bastiat y en su propia e impecable capacidad de pensamiento lógico y prosa cristalina. Escribía bajo la influencia del propio Mises, por supuesto, pero aportó sus propios dones especiales al proyecto. Como ejemplo, este es el libro que hizo tan famosa la idea de la falacia de la ventana rota. Conciso e instructivo, es también engañosamente premonitorio y de gran alcance en sus esfuerzos por disipar falacias económicas que son tan frecuentes que casi se han convertido en una nueva ortodoxia. Este es el libro que hay que enviar a los periodistas, los políticos, los pastores, los activistas políticos, los profesores o cualquier otra persona que necesite saber. Es probablemente el libro de economía más importante jamás escrito en el sentido de que ofrece la mayor esperanza para educar a todos sobre el significado de la ciencia. Muchos escritores han intentado superar este libro como introducción, pero nunca lo han conseguido. El libro de Hazlitt sigue siendo el mejor. Sigue siendo la forma más rápida de aprender a pensar como un economista. Y por eso se ha utilizado en las mejores aulas durante más de sesenta años.

«A lei é a justiça.» Esta edição junta os textos mais célebres de Bastiat: «O Estado», no qual figura a célebre máxima de que «O Estado é a grande ficção pela qual todos tentam viver à custa uns dos outros»; «A Petição», uma das críticas mais brilhantes à ideologia proteccionista; «O que se vê e o que não se vê», famosa lição de apelo à previdência em economia; e o aclamadíssimo «A Lei», um dos mais célebres e influentes textos do liberalismo francês oitocentista. Fréderic Bastiat (1801-1850) foi um célebre escritor e economista francês. É considerado um dos pais do liberalismo francês oitocentista (a par de Jean-Baptiste Say, Antoine Destutt de Tracy e Gustave de Molinari). Exerceu cargos de juiz de paz e de autarca, e em 1848 foi eleito para a Assembleia Nacional. Autor de várias obras, foi um acérrimo defensor do mercado livre, tendo influenciado a Escola Austríaca.

A Sabedoria dos Estoicos é mais que uma simples compilação de textos, é uma curadoria de escritos dos principais autores estoicos da era clássica, feita por dois notáveis estudiosos da filosofia estoica. O estoicismo, nascido para ser um guia de vida, desde o início não se preocupou muito em ser altamente literário, era antes aquilo que se convencionou chamar de “filosofia prática”. Assim sendo, muitos textos clássicos do estoicismo padecem de uma clareza editorial, muitas vezes repetitivas, o que costuma desencorajar alguns leitores. Os textos estoicos de Marco Aurélio, por exemplo, serviram antes como seu diário pessoal, anotações práticas para o seu cotidiano, um lembrete de virtudes a serem praticadas no dia a dia. É justamente aí que entra a genialidade de Frances K. Hazlitt e Henry Hazlitt, organizadores desta obra. Mais do que apresentar e abrir espaço para o estoicismo na filosofia moderna americana, e, agora, na brasileira também, os estudiosos compilaram o que há de melhor e mais fundamental nos escritos de Sêneca, Epiteto e Marco Aurélio. A curadoria expõe exatamente o que você precisa ler para captar e entender o cerne do estoicismo a partir das fontes originais desse pensamento. Estamos falando de uma filosofia que desceu da torre de marfim, que convidou o homem, suas angústias, defeitos e aporias para um trabalho dedicado de melhoria constante de seu caráter e de sua história. Hoje o estoicismo invade os consultórios médicos oferecendo resiliência, os altos escritórios business de São Paulo, ensinando constância e organização, e também a casa simples de um operário, convidando-o à prática virtuosa da abnegação moral e social. Assim como o estoicismo, este é um livro para todos, do imperador Marco Aurélio ao servo Epiteto, do dono de indústrias aos seus empregados; todos deviam ler o que se encontra aqui.

Da autoria de um dos maiores divulgadores da Escola Austriaca, Economia numa Lic?o e um texto conciso e esclarecedor que visa desmontar algumas falacias economicas que adquiriram quase estatuto de dogma, t?o predominantes se tornaram. Ao por a tonica em soluc?es que n?o passem pela intervenc?o estatal, numa posic?o contra os defices e que valoriza os mercados livres e a liberdade do individuo, este texto de Hazlitt e hoje t?o relevante como na altura em que foi escrito, em 1946.

Inflation – fast selbstverständlich hat jeder schon einmal davon gehört. Aber was sie für den Einzelnen oder eine ganze Volkswirtschaft wirklich bedeutet und wie man sich letztendlich vor ihr und ihren Folgen schützen kann, weiß oft niemand so genau. Henry Hazlitt erläutert endlich auf für jeden verständliche und anschauliche Art die Bedeutung einer Inflation, aber auch die Möglichkeit, einen Nutzen aus ihr zu ziehen. Vor allem aber geht Hazlitt auf die Rolle des Staates bei der Geldentwertung ein. In wieweit ist er für die Ursachen verantwortlich, wie wirksam sind seine Gegenstrategien und profitiert er sogar von einer Inflation? Der seit Jahren vergriffene Klassiker von 1960 ist endlich wieder lieferbar.

2016 Reprint of 1959 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 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 what he considered to be 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-style logical reasoning. The result: a nearly 500-page masterpiece of exposition.

A simple, straightforward treatise on man''s management of self. -The North American Review, Vol. 215 Expressly disclaims the purpose of presenting a marvelous system which will lead to fame and fortune over night, but does give sane and practical advice on training the will and developing the character. Much of the substance of the book is adapted from William James, ''but full credit is given. Protests against over-stressing of psychoanalysis. -The Booklist, Vol. 18

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In kaum einem Bereich spuken so viele Irrtümer herum wie in der Ökonomie. Zudem sind sie so weit verbreitet, dass sie als gültige Lehrmeinung angesehen werden. Themen wie staatliche Zinsmanipulation, Sparen, Inflation, Mindestlöhne oder Branchenrettung, wie die der Banken, sind aktueller und missverstandener denn je. Deshalb ist es wichtig zu wissen, was wirklich hinter den Begriffen steckt, wie sie zusammenwirken und welche praktischen Folgen (staatliche) Eingriffe haben. Niemand könnte ein Verständnis wirtschaftlicher Grundlagen besser vermitteln als Henry Hazlitt. Als einer der ganz Großen der Österreichischen Schule wird er in einem Atemzug mit Mises, Hayek und Rothbard genannt. Seine Begabung für elegante, populäre Darstellungen wirtschaftlicher Zusammenhänge haben dieses Buch entstehen lassen. In 24 kurzweiligen Kapiteln vermittelt er sein umfassendes Wissen, von Steuern über die Idee der Vollbeschäftigung bis zu Preisen und Inflation. Die 24 wichtigsten Regeln der Wirtschaft, ein Klassiker der Ökonomie jetzt auf Deutsch und heute noch so aktuell wie zur Erstveröffentlichung 1946.

LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com. Henry Hazlitt confronted the rise of Keynesianism in his day and put together an intellectual arsenal: the most brilliant economists of the time showing what is wrong with the system, in great detail with great rigor. With excerpts from books and articles published between the 30s and 50s, it remains the most powerful anti-Keynesian collection ever assembled.

This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.

Way to Will-Power By Henry Hazlitt Contents I--A Revelation II--The Intellect as a Valet III--The Price One Pays IV--Old Bottles for the New Wine V--Resolutions Made and Resolutions Kept VI--Success and the Capital "S" VII--The Scale of Values VIII--Controlling One''s Thoughts IX--The Omnipresence of Habit X--The Alteration of Habit XI--Will and the Psychoanalysts XII--Concentration XIII--A Program of Work XIV--The Daily Challenge XV--Second and Third Winds XVI--Moral Courage Excerpt YOU have seen the advertisements. The lion and the man are facing each other; the man upstanding, hands clenched, his look defiant and terrible; the lion crouching. Who will win? The man, without doubt. He has what the beast lacks, Will-Power. And at the bottom of the page is the triangular clipping which you cut out and send for the book on how to acquire it. Or perhaps the advertisement promises you a $10,000 a year position. Nothing less than $10,000 a year seems capable of attracting the present-day reader of twenty-cent magazines. And those positions, one learns, are reserved for the men of Will-Power (not forgetting the capitals). The advertisements betray bizarre ideas about the will and will-power. Any one who has the remotest notion of psychology might be led from them to suspect the advertised course. But the advertisements reflect not alone the advertiser''s ideas, but the ideas of the plain man. they are written to catch the plain man''s eye, and they do catch his eye, else how account for their persistence, their enlargement, and their multiplication, notwithstanding the notorious expensiveness of advertising? Now I am about to reveal a profound secret about the will. The revelation will cause a good deal of shock and disappointment and a bedlam of protest. However, I derive courage to meet the protest because I have an imposing body of psychologic opinion behind me. I have behind me most of the reputable pscyhologic opinion since Herbert Spencer. And so here it is: The will does not exist. I repeat it, lest you fancy there has been a misprint. There is no such thing as the will. Nor such a thing as will-power. These are merely convenient words. Now when a man denies the existence of the will he is on dangerous ground. It is as if he were to deny the existence of the tomato. Yet I do... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.

Over a million copies sold! A fundamental influence on modern libertarianism, this classic guide to the basics of economic theory defends capitalism and the free market from economic myths that persist to this day. “A magnificent job of theoretical exposition.”—Ayn Rand Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the “Austrian School,” which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson in 1946. Concise and instructive, it is also deceptively prescient and far-reaching in its efforts to dissemble economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy. Economic commentators across the political spectrum have credited Hazlitt with foreseeing the collapse of the global economy which occurred more than fifty years after the initial publication of Economics in One Lesson. Hazlitt’s focus on non-governmental solutions, strong—and strongly reasoned—anti-deficit position, and general emphasis on free markets, economic liberty of individuals, and the dangers of government intervention make Economics in One Lesson every bit as relevant and valuable today as it has been since publication.

全书包括三部分26章,以一堂课的形式,深入浅出地讨论了涉及现实社会经济生活的诸多问题,例如公共建设工程、税收、政府信贷、就业与失业等,以最简单的阐述方式,向读者逐次解读这些复杂的经济问题背后的真相、什么样的经济政策会造成什么样的结果。

Long before Charles Murray took on the topic, Henry Hazlitt wrote an outstanding book on poverty that not only provided an empirical examination of the problem but also presented a rigorous theory for understanding the relationship between poverty and income growth. He examines poverty in the ancient world, the poor laws of England, the advance of the middle class in the United States, the failure of welfare programs, the fallacies associated with income redistribution, and the relationship between population and poverty. Its 20 chapters are outstanding essays that make for a well-integrated text on the topic, one which holds up as prophetic in every way, having foreshadowing welfare reform but also pointing the way toward even more radical reforms. The way out of poverty, he explains, is freedom, and freedom alone. 240 pages plus index.

When Henry Hazlitt published this exceedingly rare book, he was finishing up a three-year position at The Nation as literary critic, and preparing to accept the position as H.L. Mencken''s successor at American Mercury. He was struggling with integrating his two main interests: literary criticism and economics. In economics, value is subjective, whereas the key goal in literary criticism is the discovery of something approximating objective value. The text of this book reflects that struggle in the form of a trialogue. Hazlitt has his characters debate the question of literary value, and pushes forward the proposition that the value of literature is discerned and revealed through the operation of the "social mind." So he ends up rejecting relativism while avoiding mistakes in economic theory. A fascinating study, brilliantly conceived and rendered by a master. As an extra bonus here, Hazlitt offers a postscript on the rise of Marxism in literary criticism. He shows how preposterous it is for Marxism to reject the main corpus of Western litertaure as hopelessly bourgeois, even while Marx himself read all the great works in his leisure. This is a highly significant essay becuase it was probably the first attack on Marxist literary deconstructionism ever written!

Here is a splendid novel by Henry Hazlitt, first published in 1951 and revised in 1966. The plot line explores the economic theories of capitalism and socialism. It begins in a fully socialist society in which the new leader, who finds himself in that position only by accident, begins to rethink the economic basis of the system. He first begins to wonder whether the economy is doing well at all, and how they might discover this. This sets the leadership on a path to thinking about prices and calculation, and the very meaning of productivity. Trading is introduced when the leadership can''t see anything wrong with the idea of trading rationing tickets, and shortly markets appear, and everyone seems to be better off as a result. So on it continues. Slowly, piece by piece, he dismantles central planning and replaces it with a market system. All the while, the characters engaged in a Socratic-style discussion about the implications of money, exchange, ownership, markets, entrepreneurship, and more. Hazlitt was well equipped to be a fiction writer. He was literary editor of The Nation for 3 years and the successor to H.L. Mencken at the American Mercury. This novel is an excellent introduction to the problems of economic systems, and can be a great benefit to young people who are curious about the meaning of economic analysis. It is, in fact, suitable for all ages. The Mises Institute is very pleased to sponsor this reprint.