Henry Hazlitt
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| Austrian School | |
|---|---|
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| Birth | November 28, 1894 |
| Death | July 9, 1993 (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".
See also
Links
- Biography at Mises.org
- The Hazlitt Archive
- the complete Bibliography
- Online works
- Hazlitt's Logic, For Those Who Care About Freedom by Garet Garret, 1946
- Interview with Henry Hazlitt in The Austrian Economics Newsletter, Spring 1984
- "Did Hazlitt Distort Keynes?" by Jeffrey Tucker, April 2005
- The Free Market: "Hazlitt as a National Teacher" (PDF) by Jeff Riggenbach, November 2010 (republished as Mises Daily here)
- Remembering Henry Hazlitt by Bettina Bien Greaves, July 2007
- Henry Hazlitt interviewed on Longines Chronoscope (video), 1951
