The Broken Window

Tags: Interventionism, Free Markets

05/17/2019 Henry Hazlitt

The broken-window fallacy, under a hundred disguises, is the most persistent in the history of economics.

Excerpted from Economics in One Lesson, pp. 11-13.

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