Henry Hazlitt

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Henry Stuart Hazlitt
Austrian School
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Birth November 28, 1894(1894-11-28)
Death July 9, 1993(1993-07-09) (aged 98)
Nationality American
Field economics
literary criticism
philosophy
Opposed Alvin Hansen, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen
Influences Benjamin Anderson, Frédéric Bastiat, David Hume, William James, H.L. Mencken, Ludwig von Mises, Herbert Spencer, Philip Wicksteed
Influenced Steve Forbes, Milton Friedman, Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, George Reisman, Murray Rothbard, Peter Schiff, Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams

Henry Hazlitt (28 November 1894–9 July 1993) was a journalist and economist of the Austrian School, probably best known for his book Economics in One Lesson, in which he expounds the lesson from Frédéric Bastiat's essay "That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen".

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