Quotes by Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

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There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, o — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
the larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and empl — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like t — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is sa — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called ec — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge cost — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full production and taken as an — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
ECONOMICS IS HAUNTED by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation. Once — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A. — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
private loans will utilize existing resources and capital far better than government loans. Government loans will waste — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics