Henry Hazlitt - Definition

Henry Hazlitt (November 28, 1894 - July 8, 1993) was a libertarian philosopher, economist and journalist for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Newsweek, among other publications. He was credited with bringing Austrian economics to an English-speaking audience.

Hazlitt is well-known for his book Economics in One Lesson, but he also wrote other books, among which a major work on ethics, The Foundations of Morality, and The Failure of the New Economics, a detailed chapter-by-chapter critique of Keynes's "General Theory" (of which he wrote that he was "unable to find in it a single doctrine that is both true and original. What is original in the book is not true; and what is true is not original.")

Hazlitt was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine.

A well-known quote from Henry Hazlitt: "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

Bibliography

Books

• Thinking as a Science, 1915
• The Way to Will Power, 1922
• A Practical Program for America, 1933
• The Anatomy of Criticism, 1933
• Instead of Dictatorship, 1933
• A New Constitution Now, 1942
• Freedom in America: The Freeman (with Virgil Jordon), 1945
• The Full Employment Bill: An Analysis, 1945
• Economics in One Lesson, 1946
• Will Dollars Save the World?, 1947
• Forum: Do Current Events Indicate Greater Government Regulation, Nationalization, or Socialization?, Proceedings from a Conference Sponsored by The Economic and Business Foundation, 1948
• The Illusions of Point Four, 1950
• The Great Idea, 1951
• The Free Man's Library, 1956
• The Failure of the 'New Economics': An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies, 1959
• The Critics of Keynesian Economics (ed.), 1960
• What You Should Know About Inflation, 1960
• The Foundations of Morality, 1964
• Man vs. The Welfare State, 1969
• The Conquest of Poverty, 1973
• To Stop Inflation, Return to Gold, 1974
• The Inflation Crisis and How to Resolve It, 1978
• From Bretton Woods to World Inflation, 1984
• The Wisdom of the Stoics: Selections from Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, 1984
• The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt, 1993

Articles

See Bibliography of Henry Hazlitt (http://www.mises.org/hazlitt/hazlittbib.asp) for complete list.

External links

• The Henry Hazlitt Foundation (http://www.hazlitt.org) publishes some of his texts (http://www.hazlitt.org/e-texts/)
• Directory from the Open Directory Project (http://editors.dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Economics/Schools_of_Thought/Austrian_School/People/Hazlitt,_Henry/)