Clearly written, concise, critical thinking ( )

Again, this is a much higher quality book for a non-economics person than for one. If you are new to anarcho-capitalist economics, this book is very helpful for understanding its proponents. However, to understand the infuriating smugness, Defending the Undefendable is far more useful. ( )

Excellent primer on econ, put in simple and useful terms. ( )

This is a simple, but amazingly profound, mind blowing introduction to some basic economic principles. The principles outlined here are quite simple, and yet it seems so many people today can not grasp these basic truths.

Granted this book is a bit dated, but most of it is still useful and much of it seems as if it were written today.

I sincerely wish more politicians and voters today would read this book, it would go a long way toward restoring some knowledge of basic economics and some common sense to the decisions that get made on the political sphere.

There are many economics books that are so dense that I would take no delight in reading nor would I feel comfortable recommending to someone who is not already an economics wonk. However, with this title, I have no such reservations. I can wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone. I guarantee it will be enlightening in at least one or two areas! ( )

In the current economic crisis our country is facing I felt a need to self-educate in the realm of economics, having been tragically failed by the sorry excuse for an education in economics that I received at my public high school in 12th grade. I didn’t want a book that pitted me for or against any certain current politician but rather weighed economic philosophies against each other on a rational level in an easy to read format so I figured a book written over 50 years ago would be safe from mentioning current politicians. As I have read through it, it has been remarkable to see how closely the situations we are seeing played out today were delineated and discussed in the book, almost as if it was written for today... I suppose it was written for today as much as it was written for 1946 because the principles of free market economics are just as true as they were a few thousand years ago and as true as they will remain into the future. Likewise the fallacies that so many politicians have historically embraced and continue to embrace are just as false and doomed to failure as they have ever been. This book fulfilled my non-partisan (non-name-mentioning) mandate quite well. This book is wonderful and easily digestible, not boring at all. I’m only half-way through it but it is so easy to read and makes such good sense that I want to pass it on. ( )