Abstract

John Quiggin's _Economics in Two Lessons_ alleges a failing in Henry Hazlitt's _Economics in One Lesson_: the absence of a discussion of market failure. Quiggin's adherence to the doctrine of neoclassical equilibrium misses an important fact: the absence of a neoclassical equilibrium is not a recession, but the ordinary course of the economy. _Economics in Two Lessons_ reveals a misunderstanding of Austrian business cycle theory, and the second lesson to a large extent consists of casting Hazlitt's lesson aside.

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