Henry Hazlitt vs. William Stanley Jevons
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Henry Hazlitt
1894 – 1993
Henry Stuart Hazlitt was an American journalist, economist, and philosopher known for his advocacy of free markets and classical liberal principles. Over a career spanning more than seven decades, Hazlitt wrote extensively on business, economics, and public policy for prominent publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The American Mercury, Newsweek, and The New York Times. He is best known for his 1946 book, Economics in One Lesson, a work grounded in the Austrian school of economics and its belief in the importance of individual liberty in economic decision-making.
"So we have finished with the broken window. An elementary fallacy. Anybody, one would think, would be able to avoid it after a few moments’ thought. Yet the bro…"
William Stanley Jevons
1835 – 1882
William Stanley Jevons was an English economist and logician.
"Jevons and the Logic 'Piano'" at The Rutherford Journal"
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