Economics in One Lesson

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Economics in One Lesson......Page 0 Table of Contents......Page 3 Preface......Page 5 The Lesson......Page 10 The Lesson Applied......Page 15 The Broken Window......Page 16 The Blessings of Destruction......Page 17 Public Works Mean Taxes......Page 22 Taxes Discourage Production......Page 29 Credit Diverts Production......Page 32 The Curse of Machinery......Page 41 Spread-the-Work Schemes......Page 54 Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats......Page 60 The Fetish of Full Employment......Page 64 Who's "Protected" by Tariffs?......Page 66 The Drive for Exports......Page 78 "Parity" Prices......Page 83 Saving the X Industry......Page 91 How the Price System Works......Page 97 "Stabilizing" Commodities......Page 104 Government Price-Fixing......Page 112 Minimum Wage Laws......Page 123 Do Unions Really Raise Wages?......Page 128 "Enough to Buy Back the Product......Page 141 The Function of Profits......Page 149 The Mirage of Inflation......Page 153 The Assault on Saving......Page 168 The Lesson Restated......Page 184 A Note on Books......Page 195