The Foundations of Morality - Softcover

Hazlitt, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572460725 ISBN 13: 9781572460720

Publisher: Foundation for Economic Education, 1998

Synopsis

Henry Hazlitt was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist for various publications including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and Newsweek. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an important libertarian publication. In 1946 Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson, his seminal text on free market economics, which Ayn Rand referred to as doing a "...magnificent job of theoretical exposition." Hazlitt is credited with bringing his ideas and those of the so-called Austrian School to the American economics scene and his work has influenced the likes of economist Ludwig von Mises, novelist and essayist Ayn Rand. In Foundations of Morality Hazlitt presents a consistent moral philosophy based on the principles required for voluntary social interaction.

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About the Author:

Henry Hazlitt's distinguished career began in 1913 when he was hired by The Wall Street Journal. He went on to write for several newspapers, including The New York Evening Post, The New York Evening Mail, The New York Herald, and The Sun. In the early 1930s he was literary editor of The Nation, and succeeded H. L. Mencken as editor of the American Mercury in 1933. From 1946 to 1966 he was the "Business Tides" columnist for Newsweek. Mr. Hazlitt will be remembered as an eloquent writer, an incisive economic think, and a tireless defender of freedom. His best known book is Economics in One Lesson, which has sold more than one million copies since its firs publication in 1946. He wrote or edited seventeen other books, including The Failure of the "New Economics" (1959) and The Foundations of Morality (1964). He was a Founding Trustee of The Foundation for Economic Education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Foundation for Economic Education
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1572460725
• ISBN 13: 9781572460720
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 398