5. The Curse of Machinery

Tags: Austrian Economics Overview, Production Theory

10/03/2008 Robert P. Murphy Jeffrey A. Tucker

Recorded during the 2008 Mises University, Jeffrey Tucker interviews leading Austrian Economists on the topic of Henry Hazlitt’s classic book Economics in One Lesson.

This is the fifth in a series of twelve interviews with leading Austrian Economists discussing each chapter of Hazlitt’s book.

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