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available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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EconomÃa en una lección
Fabricio Terán; Edited by Tienda Mises; Henry Hazlitt
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R413
Discovery Miles 4 130
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A simple, straightforward analysis of economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy.
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Long before Charles Murray took on the topic, Henry Hazlitt wrote
an outstanding book on poverty that not only provided an empirical
examination of the problem but also presented a rigorous theory for
understanding the relationship between poverty and income growth.
He examines poverty in the ancient world, the poor laws of England,
the advance of the middle class in the United States, the failure
of welfare programs, the fallacies associated with income
redistribution, and the relationship between population and
poverty. Its 20 chapters are outstanding essays that make for a
well-integrated text on the topic, one which holds up as prophetic
in every way, having foreshadowing welfare reform but also pointing
the way toward even more radical reforms. The way out of poverty,
he explains, is freedom, and freedom alone.
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Here is Hazlitt's major philosophical work, in which he grounds a
policy of private property and free markets in an ethic of
classical utilitarianism, understood in the way Mises understood
that term. In writing this book, Hazlitt is reviving an 18th and
19th century tradition in which economists wrote not only about
strictly economic issues but also on the relationship between
economics and the good of society in general. Adam Smith wrote a
moral treatise because he knew that many objections to markets are
rooted in these concerns. Hazlitt takes up the cause too, and with
spectacular results. Hazlitt favors an ethic that seeks the long
run general happiness and flourishing of all. Action, institutions,
rules, principles, customs, ideals, and all the rest stand or fall
according to the test of whether they permit people to live
together peaceably to their mutual advantage. Critical here is an
understanding of the core classical liberal claim that the
interests of the individual and that of society in general are not
antagonistic but wholly compatible and co-determinous. In pushing
for "rules-utilitarianism," Hazlitt is aware that he is adopting an
ethic that is largely rejected in our time, even by the bulk of the
liberal tradition. But he makes the strongest case possible, and
you will certainly be challenged at every turn.
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Birds and Fishes (Paperback)
Louisiana P Louisiana State Commission; Henry Hazlitt Kopman
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R339
Discovery Miles 3 390
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Way to Will-Power
By Henry Hazlitt
Contents
I--A Revelation
II--The Intellect as a Valet
III--The Price One Pays
IV--Old Bottles for the New Wine
V--Resolutions Made and Resolutions Kept
VI--Success and the Capital "S"
VII--The Scale of Values
VIII--Controlling One's Thoughts
IX--The Omnipresence of Habit
X--The Alteration of Habit
XI--Will and the Psychoanalysts
XII--Concentration
XIII--A Program of Work
XIV--The Daily Challenge
XV--Second and Third Winds
XVI--Moral Courage
Excerpt
YOU have seen the advertisements. The lion and the man are facing
each other; the man upstanding, hands clenched, his look defiant
and terrible; the lion crouching. Who will win? The man, without
doubt. He has what the beast lacks, Will-Power.
And at the bottom of the page is the triangular clipping which you
cut out and send for the book on how to acquire it.
Or perhaps the advertisement promises you a $10,000 a year
position. Nothing less than $10,000 a year seems capable of
attracting the present-day reader of twenty-cent magazines. And
those positions, one learns, are reserved for the men of Will-Power
(not forgetting the capitals).
The advertisements betray bizarre ideas about the will and
will-power. Any one who has the remotest notion of psychology might
be led from them to suspect the advertised course. But the
advertisements reflect not alone the advertiser's ideas, but the
ideas of the plain man. they are written to catch the plain man's
eye, and they do catch his eye, else how account for their
persistence, their enlargement, and their multiplication,
notwithstanding the notorious expensiveness of advertising?
Now I am about to reveal a profound secret about the will. The
revelation will cause a good deal of shock and disappointment and a
bedlam of protest. However, I derive courage to meet the protest
because I have an imposing body of psychologic opinion behind me. I
have behind me most of the reputable pscyhologic opinion since
Herbert Spencer. And so here it is:
The will does not exist.
I repeat it, lest you fancy there has been a misprint. There is no
such thing as the will. Nor such a thing as will-power. These are
merely convenient words.
Now when a man denies the existence of the will he is on dangerous
ground. It is as if he were to deny the existence of the tomato.
Yet I do...
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