2016 Reprint of 1959 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.
Henry Hazlitt did the seemingly impossible, something that was and is a magnificent service to all people everywhere. He wrote a line-by-line commentary and refutation of what he considered to be one of the most destructive, fallacious, and convoluted books of the century. The target here is John Maynard Keynes's "General Theory," the book that appeared in 1936 and swept all before it.

In economic science, Keynes changed everything. He supposedly...