Holiday reading: Economics in One Lesson

[Economics in One Lesson]

Economics in One Lesson

PART ONE: THE LESSON

* 1. The Lesson

PART TWO: THE LESSON APPLIED

* 2. The Broken Window
* 3. The Blessings of Destruction
* 4. Public Works Mean Taxes
* 5. Taxes Discourage Production
* 6. Credit Diverts Production
* 7. The Curse of Machinery
* 8. Spread-the-Work Schemes
* 9. Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats
* 10. The Fetish of Full Employment
* 11. Who's "Protected" by Tariffs?
* 12. The Drive for Exports
* 13. “Parity” Prices
* 14. Saving the X Industry
* 15. How the Price System Works
* 16. “Stabilizing” Commodities
* 17. Government Price-Fixing
* 18. What Rent Control Does
* 19. Minimum Wage Laws
* 20. Do Unions Really Raise Wages?
* 21. “Enough to Buy Back the Product”
* 22. The Function of Profits
* 23. The Mirage of Inflation
* 24. The Assault on Saving
* 25. The Lesson Restated

PART THREE: THE LESSON AFTER THIRTY YEARS

* The Lesson After Thirty Years

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