Henry Hazlitt

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Henry Hazlitt

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Henry Hazlitt (November 28, 1894 – July 8, 1993) was a libertarian philosopher, economist and journalist for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The American Mercury, among other publications. In childhood his family's finances were meager, his father having died when Henry was an infant, and he left college after a year and a half to become a journalist. He was credited with bringing Austrian economics to an English-speaking audience. Hazlitt was a prolific writer, authoring some 25 books in his lifetime.^[1]

Hazlitt is well-known for his book Economics in One Lesson, but he also wrote other books, among which are 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.

Hazlitt was part of Ayn Rand's inner circle of friends in the forties and early fifties.^[2]

From 1997 to 2002 there was an organization called The Henry Hazlitt Foundation which actively promoted libertarian networking online, especially through its website Free-Market.Net. This organization was named in honor of Hazlitt because he was known for introducing a wide range of people to libertarian ideas through his writing and for helping free-market advocates connect with each other. For example, he introduced Ayn Rand to free-market circles in New York, and secured a position at New York University for Ludwig von Mises. It is important to note that the foundation was started after Hazlitt's passing and had no official connection with his estate.

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2 Bibliography
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^ Ludwig von Mises Institute, Henry Hazlitt: A Giant of Liberty, pp. 20-27
^ Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand

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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 Jordan), 1945
The Full Employment Bill: An Analysis, 1945
Economics in One Lesson [1], 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