Rothbard on Hazlitt on Keynes
January 10th, 2008 by 
bkmarcus
I came across this rave review in a letter dated July 18, 1959 from Murray Rothbard to the Volker Fund:
In a forthcoming review of Henry Hazlitt’s The Failure of the "New Economics" in National Review, I write that this is the best book on economics to be published since Mises’s Human Action, ten years ago. I do not think this an exaggeration. Exempting reprinted books, such as Mises’s Theory of Money and Credit or the Böhm-Bawerk volumes, what book can compete with this one? (Mises’s Theory and History and Hayek’s Counter-Revolution of Science are more philosophical or epistemological than straight economics). […]
Frankly, I didn’t realize that Henry had it in him. [Read the rest »]
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