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

by John Quiggin

Book Overview

A masterful 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691154945
• ISBN13: 9780691154947
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.7" x 8.6"