Henry Hazlitt's classic Economics in One Lesson is now available online. Wow!
It's available courtesy of the Foundation for Economic Education, and it's their own 1952 edition, so Hazlitt's own 1961 and 1978 updates aren't in it. That's too bad.
But so what? The lesson is timeless, as is Hazlitt's treatment of it, and FEE's generosity should be appreciated by all freedom lovers. Did I say generosity? The .pdf file is available for viewing and for download. Very cool.
In the February, 1962 issue of The Objectivist Newsletter, Robert Hessen wrote:
It is the extraordinary merit of Henry Hazlitt to have detected the central fallacy involved in most of the popular errors and to have patiently presented and refuted scores of the standard arguments against free enterprise. In Economics in One Lesson, he has written the finest primer available for students of capitalism. Clear, vigorous, logical and thoroughly engrossing, the book has richly earned its status as a classic in the literature of freedom.
Okay...The Objectivist Newsletter, now that's high praise, don't you think? Here's higher: Hazlitt and his book earn the highest marks from the entire staff at The Anger of Compassion, for explication and for refuting fallacies, and I strongly you, all four three of my readers (and everyone else), to give it a read. Quite an eye-opener, and an enjoyable read to boot.