Economics In One Lesson.

HAZLITT, Henry.

Item Number: 3418

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1946.

First edition, fourth printing, published the same year as the first. The author’s seminal work. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, “To C.G. Parker with best wishes Henry Hazlitt.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Books signed and inscribed by Hazlitt are uncommon.

Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the "Austrian School," Henry Hazlitt philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an influential libertarian publication. Economics in One Lesson was praised upon publication, and has since sold over one million copies. "It is a brilliant performance. It says precisely the things which need most saying and says them with a rare courage and integrity" (F.A. Hayek).