Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly

by John Quiggin

Book Overview

A masterly introduction to the key ideas behind the successes-and failures-of free-market economics

Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt's bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. But one-lesson economics tells only half the story. It can explain why markets often work so well, but it can't explain why they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691217424
• ISBN13: 9780691217420
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.6" x 8.4"