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NOTE Acknowledgements

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The Failure of the New Economics, written by Henry Hazlitt, read by Josiah Schmidt, for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, at www.mesis.org

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Acknowledgements

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I am indebted to Harcourt Brayson Company, the American publishers of Keynes's General

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Theory, for their generous permission to reprint so many passages from that book.

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This extensive quotation, rather than mere paraphrase, seemed to me almost unavoidable

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in the present critical work because of the many existing and possible interpretations

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and Disputes Concerning What Keynes Actually Said.

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I wish to thank the New York Times for permission to reprint as an appendix my article on Keynes's

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economic consequences of the peace in its issue of March 11, 1945.

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I also wish to thank Newsweek for permission to use tables, charts and excerpts from some

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Some of my articles that originally appeared in its pages.

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My indebtedness to other publishers for permission to quote from authors or books published by

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them is, I hope, sufficiently indicated in the text or in footnotes.

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I am grateful to Ludwig von Mises for reading the galleys and offering some invaluable suggestions.

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For the opinions expressed and any errors made, I alone, of course, must be held responsible.

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My wife, as usual, has helped me in scores of details.

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Henry Hazlitt, January 1959