What You Should Know About Inflation 2nd Edition by Henry Hazlitt ISBN 9781258970888 1258970880
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ISBN 10: 1258970880
ISBN 13: 9781258970888
Author: Henry Hazlitt
The book’s title — What You Should Know About Inflation — only hints at the extent of the issues that Hazlitt addresses. He presents the Austrian theory of money in the clearest possible terms, and contrasts it with the fallacies of government management. He takes on not only the Keynesians but also the monetarists, as well as anyone who believes that government debt accumulation and manipulation of interest rates are harmless. So this book is about far more than inflation. He touches on a wide variety of macroeconomic topics, any area of economic policy that is related to the monetary regime, including budget and trade issues, as well has the economic history of inflation.
Neither does he neglect the moral cost of inflation, saying in one passage,
“It is not merely that inflation breeds dishonesty in a nation. Inflation is itself a dishonest act on the part of government, and sets the example for private citizens. When modern governments inflate by increasing the paper-money supply, directly or indirectly, they do in principle what kings once did when they clipped coins. Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water. Notwithstanding all the pious pretenses of governments that inflation is some evil visitation from without, inflation is practically always the result of deliberate governmental policy.”
Particularly interesting is the final section of the book in which Hazlitt critiques various proposals for monetary reform and then presents his view.
What is Hazlitt’s own idea for monetary reform? He wants competitive monies, which he believes will be based in precious metal. He doesn’t demand that governments get out of the monetary business altogether but merely that government permit everyone to choose to use any money and make any form of contract.
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Table of contents:
1. What Inflation Is
2. Some Qualifications
3. Some Popular Fallacies
4. A Twenty-Year Record
5. False Remedy: Price Fixing
6. The Cure for Inflation
7. Inflation Has Two Faces
8. What “Monetary Management” Means
9. Gold Goes With Freedom
10. In Dispraise of Paper
11. Inflation and High “Costs”
12. Is Inflation a Blessing?
13. Why Return to Gold?
14. Gold Means Good Faith
15. What Price for Gold?
16. The Dollar-Gold Ratio
17. Lesson of the Greenbacks
18. The Black Market Test
19. How to Return to Gold
20. Some Errors of Inflationists
21. “Selective” Credit Control
22. Must We Ration Credit?
23. Money and Goods
24. The Great Swindle
25. Easy Money = Inflation
26. Cost-Push Inflation?
27. Contradictory Goals
28. “Administered” Inflation
29. Easy Money Has an End
30. Can Inflation Merely Creep?
31. How to Wipe Out Debt
32. The Cost-Price Squeeze
33. The Employment Act of 1946
34. Inflate? Or Adjust?
35. Deficits vs. Jobs
36. Why Cheap Money Fails
37. How to Control Credit
38. Who Makes Inflation?
39. Inflation as a Policy
40. The Open Conspiracy
41. How the Spiral Spins
42. Inflation vs. Morality
43. How Can You Beat Inflation?
44. The ABC of Inflation
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