bWith over a million copies sold, iEconomics in One Lessoni is an essential guide to the basics of economic theory. A fundamental influence on modern libertarianism, Hazlitt defends capitalism and the free market from economic myths that persist to this day.b p Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the Austrian School, which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich F.A. Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt 1894-1993, was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of iThe Freemani magazine, an influential libertarian publication. Hazlitt wrote iEconomics in One Lessoni, his seminal work, in 1946. Concise and instructive, it is also deceptively prescient and far-reaching in its efforts to dissemble economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy. p Economic commentators across the political spectrum have credited Hazlitt with fo