[一课经济学](Complete)HenryHazlitt-EconomicsinOneLesson详解.doc

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt Contents PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PART ONE: THE LESSON 1. The Lesson PART TWO: THE LESSON APPLIED 2.? The Broken Window 3.? The Blessings of Destruction 4.? Public Works Mean Taxes 5.? Taxes Discourage Production 6.? Credit Diverts Production 7.? The Curse of Machinery 8.? Spread-the-Work Schemes 9.? Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats 10. The Fetish of Full Employment 11. Whos Protected by Tariffs? 12. The Drive for Exports 13. “Parity” Prices 14. Saving the X Industry 15. How the Price System Works 16. “Stabilizing” Commodities 17. Government Price-Fixing 18. What Rent Control Does 19. Minimum Wage Laws 20. Do Unions Really Raise Wages? 21. “Enough to Buy Back the Product” 22. The Function of Profits 23. The Mirage of Inflation 24. The Assault on Saving 25. The Lesson Restated PART THREE: THE LESSON AFTER THIRTY YEARS The Lesson After Thirty Years A NOTE ON BOOKS ENDNOTES Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt Preface to the New Edition PART ONE: THE LESSON 1. The Lesson Preface to the first Edition ? Contents ? The first edition of this book appeared in 1946. Eight translations were made of it, and there were numerous paperback editions. In a paperback of 1961, a new chapter was added on rent control, which had not been specifically considered in the first edition apart from government price-fixing in general. A few statistics and illustrative references were brought up to date. Otherwise no changes were made until now. The chief reason was that they were not thought necessary. My book was written to emphasize general economic principles, and the penalties of ignoring them-not the harm done by any specific piece of legislation. While my illustrations were based mainly on American experience, the kind of government interventions I deplored had become so internationalized that I seemed to many foreign readers to be particularly describing the economic policies of their o