
Hazlitt's 1946 masterpiece - selling over a million copies and influencing Reagan's economic policies - distills complex economics into one powerful lesson. Why did Milton Friedman call it "timeless, correct, painlessly instructive"? Discover the free-market wisdom that transformed global economic thinking.
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Imagine walking down a street when a boy throws a brick through a shop window. Someone in the gathering crowd remarks, "At least this will create work for the glazier." This seemingly logical observation contains the seed of the most persistent fallacy in economics. While the glazier indeed gains business, what remains unseen is what the shopkeeper would have done with that money otherwise-perhaps buying a new suit and benefiting the tailor instead. This is the one lesson that changes everything: good economic analysis requires looking not just at immediate effects on one group, but at long-term effects on all groups. Why does this error persist? Partly because economics is complex, but also because special interests benefit from promoting policies with visible short-term benefits while ignoring hidden long-term costs. Politicians win elections by pointing to jobs created by spending programs, not by explaining invisible jobs that might have been created had taxpayers kept their money. The broken window fallacy illustrates a profound truth: destruction doesn't create wealth-it merely redistributes it, often less efficiently. This insight applies not just to broken windows but to countless economic policies we encounter daily.
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