10 Economists Everyone Should Know About
Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993)
An American journalist, Henry Hazlitt was born in Philadelphia and raised in Brooklyn. Drawn to an academic life but not in a financial position to pursue it, Hazlitt began work as a secretary to the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal while he was still a teenager. By 1946, Hazlitt was the principle editorial writer on finance and economics for The New York Times. His best known work is Economics In One Lesson (1946), it is a stunningly successful attempt to further illustrate Bastiat’s “Broken Window Parable,” that was a fixture in economic classrooms for decades. In addition, Hazlett was directly responsible for bringing men like Mises and Hayek to the attention of American audiences.
