42. Inflation vs. Morality

42 Inflation vs. Morality

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43. How Can You Beat Inflation?

43 How Can You Beat Inflation?

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44. The ABC of Inflation

44 The ABC of Inflation

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Index

Index of Names

Anderson, Benjamin M., 104-105

Balderston, C. Canby, 94

Brubacker, Otis, 99

Burgess, W. Randolph, 25-26

Chaucer, 27

Churchill, Winston, 22

Cripps, Sir Stafford, 22-24, 27, 29-30, 41

Eisenhower, President, 63, 68, 96, 118-120

Funston, G. Keith, 115-116

Havenga, Nicolaas C., 56

Hayek, F. A., 128-129

Humphrey, George M., 67, 79-80

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Thinking as a Science

Thinking as a Science

Title Page

THINKING AS A SCIENCE

BY

HENRY HAZLITT

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NEW YORK

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

681 FIFTH AVENUE

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Copyright

Copyright, 1916

BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

          

Fifth printing......March, 1920

I. The Neglect of Thinking

THINKING AS A SCIENCE I

THE NEGLECT OF THINKING

EVERY man knows there are evils in the world which need setting right. Every man has pretty definite ideas as to what these evils are. But to most men one in particular stands out vividly. To some, in fact, this stands out with such startling vividness that they lose sight of other evils, or look upon them as the natural consequences of their own particular evil-in-chief.

II. Thinking With Method

II

THINKING WITH METHOD

MOST of us, at those rare intervals when we think at all, do so in a slipshod sort of way. If we come across a mental difficulty we try to get rid of it in almost any kind of hit or miss manner. Even those few of us who think occasionally for the mere sake of thinking, generally do so without regard for method—indeed, are often unconscious that method could be applied to our thought. But what is meant by method? I may best explain by an example.