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The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
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Birth: | 28th November, 1894 |
Death: | 9th July, 1993 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Journalist |
Henry Stuart Hazlitt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an American economic 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. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an important libertarian publication. In the early 1920s, he was financial editor of The New York Evening Mail. He wrote several books include: Thinking as a science, The way to will-power, Economics in One Lesson, Freedom in America(with Virgil Jordan), Rules for Living, The Failure of the New Economics, What you should know about inflation, The Critics of Keynesian Economics, The foundations of morality, and The conquest of poverty.
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