Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt was born in 1894 in Philadelphia. His father died when he was a baby, and the family was poor. He briefly attended the City College of New York but left to support his mother, and he educated himself while working as a newspaper reporter, starting at The Wall Street Journal. Over a career of more than seventy years he wrote on business, economics and public policy for publications including the New York Evening Post, The Nation, where he was literary editor, The American Mercury, The New York Times, where he wrote editorials, and Newsweek, where he wrote a column for twenty years. He became a friend and supporter of the economist Ludwig von Mises and helped bring the ideas of the Austrian school to general readers. His best-known book, Economics in One Lesson (1946), argues that good economic thinking looks at the long-term effects of a policy on all groups, not just the immediate effects on one group. He helped found the Foundation for Economic Education and The Freeman. He died in Connecticut in 1993, aged 98.

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