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Henry Stuart Hazlitt ( / ˈhæzlɪt /; November 28, 1894 – July 9, 1993) was an American journalist who wrote about business and economics for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The American Mercury, Newsweek, and The New York Times.
Hazlitt—journalist, literary critic, economist, philosopher—was one of the most brilliant public intellectuals of the twentieth century. In his final years, he often expressed surprise that Economics in One Lesson had become his most enduring contribution. He wrote it to expose the popular fallacies of its day.
Jul 9, 2023 · Herny Hazlitt was a popularizer of sound economic thinking, a critic of John Maynard Keynes, and a contributor to ethical moral philosophy. Not bad for a poor fatherless boy and college dropout.
Economics in One Lesson is an introduction to economics written by Henry Hazlitt and first published in 1946. It is based on Frédéric Bastiat 's essay Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas (English: "What is Seen and What is Not Seen").
Hazlitt was instrumental in persuading Yale University to publish Mises’s Omnipotent Government and Bureaucracy in 1944 and then his major opus, Human Action, in 1949. As a founding trustee of the FEE, Hazlitt also was responsible for Mises’s appointment as economic advisor to that Foundation.
Henry Hazlitt saw the urgent need of a thorough discussion of systems of ethics resting on faulty economic doctrines. In 1964, at the age of 70, he wrote The Foundations of Morality, building on the foundation laid by David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, George Santayana, and his good friend, Ludwig von Mises.
Jul 10, 1993 · Henry Hazlitt, a self-taught economist who popularized the subject as a journalist and wrote a best-selling book about it, died yesterday at the Carolton Chronic Convalescent Hospital in...
A large, diverse collection of Henry Hazlitt's essays, with auxilliary essays on Hazlitt by other authors. Produced after his passing.
Named to honor the great free-market economist Henry Hazlitt, The Henry Hazlitt Foundation seeks to make the ideas of freedom more accessible, especially through its Internet service.
Oct 5, 2019 · It may be the most popular economics text ever written. Mr. Hazlitt — journalist, literary critic, economist, philosopher — was one of the most brilliant public intellectuals of our century. He was born on November 28, 1894, and died on July 8, 1993, at the age of 98.
