Rather than repeat most of the previous argument, I leave it to the reader to trace the effects of export subsidies as I have traced the effects of bad loans. Let us imagine two brothers, then, one a spendthrift and the other a prudent man, each of whom has inherited a sum to yield him an income of $50,000 a year. The producers cannot make a living. And if their workers have developed specialized skills, they may even suffer permanently, or until they have at long last learnt equal skills. In addition, the capital available for risk-taking itself shrinks enormously. The argument that labor should receive enough to buy back the product is merely a special form of the general “purchasing power” argument. It is true that, when millions of men are suddenly released, it may require time for private industry to reabsorb them—though what has been chiefly remarkable in the past has been the speed, rather than the slowness, with which this was accomplished. Functional prices are those that encourage the largest volume of production and the largest volume of sales. Let us say that it comes into existence because the government makes larger expenditures than it can or wishes to meet out of the proceeds of taxes (or from the sale of bonds paid for by the people out of real savings). Through them we can learn to detect and avoid first the crudest and most palpable fallacies and finally some of the most sophisticated and elusive. Consumers in both countries are better off. They would keep on buying until the price rose to a point where they saw no further opportunity of future profit. The Nineteenth Century is derided for its supposed inculcation of the doctrine that mankind through saving should go on making itself a larger and larger cake without ever eating the cake. The argument for holding down the price of these goods will run something like this. Thus every departure from the desired speed itself sets in motion the forces that tend to correct that departure. This capital is made up in part of many things that might better be called consumers’ durable goods—automobiles, refrigerators, furniture, schools, colleges, churches, libraries, hospitals and above all private homes. If people are willing to work for less than they are really worth to him, why should he not take the fullest advantage of this? The X industry is sick. And it is unlikely that labor will compensate for the absolute drop in production by getting a larger relative share of the production that is left. My second debt is to Philip Wicksteed: in particular the chapters on wages and the final summary chapter owe much to his Common Sense of Political Economy. But let us see what Benjamin actually does with this other $25,000. So the funds create as much employment as if Benjamin had spent them directly on himself. The great advantage of a subsidy, indeed, from the standpoint of the public, is that it makes this fact so clear. This has several immediately bad effects. But it does benefit them. They are more likely today to be energetic reformers busily discouraging and disrupting production. The world will be richer by that many more oranges. In the railroad industry, the unions insist that firemen be employed on types of locomotives that do not need them. They bring together formidable totals. That much is true. That, in fact, is one of the least harmful ways in which it has done so; for the compensating gain, at least, has been clear. This brings us to the general meaning and effect of economic equilibrium. I am grateful to Professor von Mises for reading the manuscript and for helpful suggestions. The inability to produce automobiles, radios, and refrigerators during the war will bring about a cumulative post-war demand for those particular products. If a rationing system is adopted, it means that each consumer can have only a certain maximum supply, no matter how much he is willing to pay for more. But the more money is turned out in this way, the more the value of any given unit of money falls. In some trades they have insisted on standards to increase the level of skill and competence. This hoarding of cash may seem like the cause of a subsequent slowdown in business activity. The government’s funds all come from taxes. The shopkeeper runs out furious, but the boy is gone. They are the result of looking only at the immediate effects of a single tariff rate on one group of producers, and forgetting the long-run effects both on consumers as a whole and on all other producers. Economics in One Lesson: Chapter 3 - YouTube Economics In One Lesson Summary. In the course of our study, also, we have rediscovered an old friend. This is what is immediately seen. But that raises a different question: we shall consider the effects of deficit financing in a later chapter. Even if these figures are taken to represent only the elasticity of the demand for labor revealed in a given period of the past, and not necessarily to forecast that of the future, they deserve the most serious consideration. It consists of the tools of production, including everything from the crudest axe, knife or plow to the finest machine tool, the greatest electric generator or cyclotron, or the most wonderfully equipped factory. The long-run consequences of some economic policies may become evident in a few months. One might pile up mountains of figures to show how wrong were the technophobes of the past. Now unless the subsidized commodity is also rationed, it is those with the most purchasing power that can buy most of it. Those who favor it think only of the interests of the producers immediately benefited by the particular duties involved. We shall examine the effect of some of these methods when we come to the broader discussion of government commodity controls. But the city department stores do a smaller business. Less wealth is created. But there is no irrational or cumulative consumer restraint. But as overcoats are now cheaper, more people will buy them. It is only if they have been successful in the past that they have more money to lend in the future. It should not be difficult to decide, after our analysis, with whom the real folly lies. Purchasing power is chronically deficient, they think, because industry somehow does not distribute enough money to producers to enable them to buy back, as consumers, the product that is made. It does not matter to this argument, of course, whether or not the farmer gets specifically so-called “parity” prices. XIII, sec. But the officeholders can take private jobs only by supplying equivalent services to those who provide the jobs—or, rather, to the customers of the employers who provide the jobs. To do all this he has to dig into his capital. henry hazlitt: economics in one lesson . If the strikebreakers consist merely of professional thugs who themselves threaten violence, or who cannot in fact do the work, or if they are being paid a temporarily higher rate solely for the purpose of making a pretense of carrying on until the old workers are frightened back to work at the old rates, the hatred may be warranted. Whole libraries have been written on specialized fields alone, such as money and banking, foreign trade and foreign exchange, taxation and public finance, government control, capitalism and socialism, wages and labor relations, interest and capital, agricultural economics, rent, prices, profits, markets, competition and monopoly, value and utility, statistics, business cycles, wealth and poverty, social insurance, housing, public utilities, mathematical economics, studies of special industries and of economic history. Now he has become overnight an unskilled workman again, and can hope, for the present, only for the wages of an unskilled workman, because the one skill he had is no longer needed. The first and most obvious consequence would be to raise costs of production. He is a disciple (to go no further back) of Rodbertus, who declared in the middle of the nineteenth century that capitalists “must expend their income to the last penny in comforts and luxuries,” for if they “determine to save . Some of them, like precision instruments, like nylon, lucite, plywood and plastics of all kinds, simply improve the quality of products. “Adequate” relief payments, moreover, as we have already seen, create unemployment. There is no reason to go into the technical details of all this, which can be found in any good textbook on foreign exchange. What machines do, to repeat, is to bring an increase in production and an increase in the standard of living. (This tendency seems to affect entrepreneurs in most competitive pursuits: as a class they are constantly, contrary to intention, subsidizing consumers. For contrary to centuries of interested propaganda and disinterested confusion, the tariff reduces the American level of wages. How can it be “paid for”? It is railways and roads and motor cars; ships and planes and factories; schools and churches and theaters; pianos, paintings and books. He will therefore spend this $20 for something else, and so provide increased employment in other lines. Wherever business is increased in one direction, it must (except insofar as productive energies may be generally stimulated by a sense of want and urgency) be correspondingly reduced in another. It is on the fallacy of isolation, at bottom, that the “production-for-use-and-not-for-profit” school is based, with its attack on the allegedly vicious “price system.” The problem of production, say the adherents of this school, is solved. Paradoxical as it may seem to some, it is just as necessary to the health of a dynamic economy that dying industries be allowed to die as that growing industries be allowed to grow. But American consumers would be forced to subsidize this industry. When we decide to cut down our imports, we are in effect deciding also to cut down our exports. It is obviously a process involving cumulative danger. Such devices have, in general, the same effects as high or prohibitive tariffs, and often worse effects. It is another case of trying to get rich by giving things away. For the artificial shortage built up this year by withholding part of a crop from the market means an artificial surplus the next year. The latter attempt is made in our day by nearly all governments in wartime. We have deprived the man of the independence and self-respect that come from self-support, even at a low level, and from performing wanted work, at the same time as we have lowered what the man could have received by his own efforts. It means that there is less food to be consumed. There is no escape from the conclusion that the minimum wage will increase unemployment. It is no trick to employ everybody, even (or especially) in the most primitive economy. Still another objection is made against saving. The British importer could not pay the American exporter in dollars unless some previous British exporter had built up a credit in dollars here as a result of some previous sale to us. Economics in One Lesson is an introduction to economics written by Henry Hazlitt and first published in 1946. Primitive tribes are naked, and wretchedly fed and housed, but they do not suffer from unemployment. But their justification consists in the utility of their services. They are able to buy what they want where they can get it cheapest. We shall then have a situation in which the cost of living has risen by an average of 25 per cent. But men in their role of taxpayers will be subsidizing themselves in their role of consumers. Only minds corrupted by generations of misleading propaganda can regard this conclusion as paradoxical. The faith in all these policies, it will be found, springs from two acts of shortsightedness. As a postscript to this chapter I should add that its argument is not directed against all tariffs, including duties collected mainly for revenue, or to keep alive industries needed for war; nor is it directed against all arguments for tariffs. When the government steps in, the “ever-normal granary” becomes in fact an ever-political granary. To see these uncreated things requires a kind of imagination that not many people have. It would increase the demand for socialism: for, it would properly be asked, if the government is going to bear the risks, why should it not also get the profits? The concept of functional wages has been taken over, in a perverted form, by the Marxists and their unconscious disciples, the purchasing-power school. For all these purposes he needs American dollars. The argument overlooks the marginal saver, and even, indeed, the great majority of savers. How the Price System Works16. They merely see this increased money as a means of increasing everyone’s “purchasing power,” in the sense of enabling everybody to buy more goods than before. The supply of motor cars constitutes the demand of the people in the automobile industry for wheat and other goods. Supply creates demand because at bottom it is demand. But it would do no good unless we understood clearly why they were wrong. In the case of consumers we may say either that it supplies them with more and better goods for the same money, or, what is the same thing, that it increases their real incomes. If the car cost $900 to make, and only half the loan is repaid, then the company has lost $900 minus $500, or a net amount of $400. Hearings on extension of the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937. As this is being written, in fact, printing money is the world’s biggest industry—if the product is measured in monetary terms. And, as with commodities on the speculative exchanges, each person’s valuation of money is affected not only by what he thinks its value is but by what he thinks is going to be everybody else’s valuation of money. For he is sometimes Dr. Jekyll and sometimes Mr. Hyde. This rule, according to Mr. Edwards, “often involves the hiring of a man who spends his day reading or playing solitaire and does nothing except throw a switch at the beginning and end of the day.”. This is that, when we study the effects of various proposals, not merely on special groups in the short run, but on all groups in the long run, the conclusions we arrive at usually correspond with those of unsophisticated common sense. For the producers are on net balance getting no more for their milk and butter than if they had been allowed to charge the free market price in the first place; but the consumers are getting their milk and butter at a great deal below the free market price. Obviously, think the people who see only what hits them in the eye, he is providing less than half as much employment as Alvin, and the other $25,000 is as useless as if it did not exist. The other is a loan to provide capital—often to set the farmer up in business by enabling him to buy the farm itself, or a mule or tractor, or all three. The reason is that the demagogues and bad economists are presenting half-truths. It is reflected in hundreds of make-work rules and feather-bed practices by labor unions; and these rules and practices are tolerated and even approved because of the confusion on this point in the public mind. They mean, I suspect, the freedom of bureaucrats to settle these matters for him. For its application would mean economic suicide. In these cases the answer consists in showing that the proposed policy would also have longer and less desirable effects, or that it could benefit one group only at the expense of all other groups. The Curse of Machinery8. We are not concerned with them here. This restriction may take many forms: it may consist in charging new workers excessive initiation fees; in arbitrary membership qualifications; in discrimination, open or concealed, on grounds of religion, race or sex; in some absolute limitation on the number of members, or in exclusion, by force if necessary, not only of the products of non-union labor, but of the products even of affiliated unions in other states or cities. It is merely our old friend, the broken-window fallacy, in new clothing, and grown fat beyond recognition. The investors once had liquid funds. But they contend that this will be more than offset by the added production brought into existence by the borrowers who pay back, and even by most of the borrowers who do not pay back. If there is no profit in making an article, it is a sign that the labor and capital devoted to its production are misdirected: the value of the resources that must be used up in making the article is greater than the value of the article itself. In 1940 it had risen to 450,000. But if a worker mistakenly refuses a job in the belief that he can easily get another that will pay him more, the error may cost him dear. The Assault on SavingPart Three: The Lesson Restated24. Most lenders, therefore, investigate any proposal carefully before they risk their own money in it. What A produces constitutes the demand for what B produces. It is true that the tariff hurts all consumers as such. Nine-tenths of the economic fallacies that are working such dreadful harm in the world today are the result of ignoring this lesson. I hope, finally, that I shall be forgiven for making such rare reference to statistics in the following pages. But a bridge built primarily “to provide employment” is a different kind of bridge. In our modern world there is never the same percentage of income tax levied on everybody. Compared with him brother Benjamin is much less popular. It leads to the over-expansion of some industries at the expense of others. The fact is that, though the volume of saving of the very rich is doubtless affected much less proportionately than that of the moderately well-off by changes in the interest rate, practically everyone’s saving is affected in some degree. Many stem from confusions so elementary as to seem incredible, particularly when found in economic writers of wide repute. Businesses that depend on domestic trade would therefore be hurt in the long run as much as export businesses would be helped. He is no longer seen in the night clubs and at the fashionable shops; and those whom he formerly patronized, when they speak of him, refer to him as something of a fool. But comparatively few people today make this error; and those few consist mainly of professional economists. The Function of Profits22. We know what it is today; we do not know what it will be tomorrow; and tomorrow we shall not know what it will be on the day after. In 1873 Bessemer steel in England , where its price had not been enhanced by protective duties, commanded $80 per ton; in 1886 it was profitably manufactured and sold in the same country for less than $20 per ton. Most of us must have noticed the automatic “governor” on a steam engine. As a producer he wants inflation (thinking chiefly of his own services or product); as a consumer he wants price ceilings (thinking chiefly of what he has to pay for the products of others). Or would they have required increases of 55 to 160 per cent to give them as much per capita purchasing power as the automobile workers? In this case the “marginal” producers, that is, the producers who are least efficient, or whose costs of production are highest, will be driven out of business altogether. The United States Treasury was compelled to acquire, at ridiculous prices far above the market level, hoards of unnecessary silver, and to store it in vaults. This is not at all because entrepreneurs (people who go into business for themselves) are intentional philanthropists, but because their optimism and self-confidence too often lead them into ventures that do not or cannot succeed.[1]. Post-war demand in most countries, to repeat, will shrink in absolute amount as compared with pre-war demand because post-war supply will have shrunk. Sometimes he makes a mistake, and then it is not only the banker who suffers, but the whole community; for values which were supposed to be produced by the lender are not produced and resources are wasted. 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This figure greatly overstates the amount of net saving that has occurred historically in the United States,[3] but it is a round figure that is easily handled, and it gives the benefit of every doubt to those who believe that we have been “oversaving.”. The real question is, therefore, whether A or B shall get the farm. Even if they were “normal” at the time, what reason is there to suppose that these same relationships should be preserved a generation later in spite of the enormous changes in the conditions of production and demand that have taken place in the meantime? Presented in this order, the chief works to be consulted, with the dates of their first editions, are: John Bates Clark, The Distribution of Wealth, 1899; Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics, 1890; Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, The Positive Theory of Capital, 1888; W. Stanley Jevons, The Theory of Political Economy, 1871; John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, 1848; David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, 1817; and Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776. The new firms owe their very existence or growth to the fact that they are willing to violate the law; their customers conspire with them; and as a natural consequence demoralization spreads into all business practices. There is a mysterious “leak” somewhere. But if an attempt is made to keep up the price of an agricultural commodity and no artificial restriction of output is imposed, unsold surpluses of the over-priced commodity continue to pile up until the market for that product finally collapses to a far greater extent than if the control program had never been put into effect. John Stuart Mill and other classical writers, though they sometimes failed to take sufficient account of the complex consequences resulting from the use of money, at least saw through the monetary veil to the underlying realities. Agriculture is the most basic and important of all industries. This is likely to happen only in special circumstances or localities where competitive forces do not operate freely or adequately; but nearly all these special cases could be remedied just as effectively, more flexibly and with far less potential harm, by unionization. For William Felkin, in his History of the Machine-Wrought Hosiery Manufactures (1867), tells us that the larger part of the 50,000 English stocking knitters and their families did not fully emerge from the hunger and misery entailed by the introduction of the machine for the next forty years. The power of labor unions to raise wages over the long run and for the whole working population has been enormously exaggerated. The political pressure groups that have benefited from the inflation will insist upon its continuance. For the amount of real capital at any moment (as distinguished from monetary tokens run off on a printing press) is limited. But this is the elementary error of mistaking a part for the whole. . A new cotton-picking machine, though it may reduce the cost of cotton underwear and shirts to everyone, and increase the general wealth, will throw thousands of cotton pickers out of work. Some of these consequences in time become apparent to the regulators, who then adopt various other devices and controls in an attempt to avert them. If he puts it either into a commercial or a savings bank, the bank either lends it to going businesses on short term for working capital, or uses it to buy securities. The fact that there is more and cheaper coffee for everyone is lost sight of; what is seen is merely that some coffee growers cannot make a living at the lower price. But the longer it is in effect the more its difficulties increase. We have deprived society of the value of his services. Arbitrarily-fixed prices and arbitrarily-limited profits can only prolong shortages and reduce production and employment. The deductive side of economics is no less important than the factual. Once again the fallacy comes from looking at the effects of this action only on the dismissed officeholders themselves and on the particular tradesmen who depend upon them. But the demobilization will not leave us economically just where we were before it started. The consumers, therefore, will obviously be better off. The second part of capital is what we may call capital proper. This is only another way of saying that the government lenders will take risks with other people’s money (the taxpayers’) that private lenders will not take with their own money. He was always upbeat. What possible point can there be, he is likely to ask, in discussing refinements and advances in economic theory, when popular thought and the actual policies of governments, certainly in everything connected with international relations, have not yet caught up with Adam Smith? It also means a forced cut in the production of farm commodities to bring up the price. This fallacy is still the basis of many labor union practices. Competitive bidding for workers could no more be tolerated than competitive bidding for materials. And this brings us to the real effect of a tariff wall. yet the number of men who were employed in effecting this great movement had decreased in 1880, as compared with 1870, to the extent of about three thousand (2,990 exactly). They can certainly create enormously more jobs in particular trades. For the present “temporary” low price cannot last. This was the first book on economics that just jumped out and grabbed me. A runaway monetary inflation, lifting prices a thousand fold, might none the less make the “national income” figures in monetary terms higher than before the war. The interest rate is merely the special name for the price of loaned capital. The father hunts; the mother prepares the food; the children collect firewood. On the one hand, as we have just seen, are those who imagine that the quantity of money could be increased by almost any amount without affecting prices. To “save silver” Congress did immense harm. The Mirage of Inflation23. Nor can the situation be rectified by providing unemployment relief. Coercion can always provide full employment. They are likely to bring more unemployment (but this time I am speaking of voluntary and not involuntary unemployment) because people can now afford to work fewer hours, while children and the over-aged no longer need to work. We have seen, for example, that the English stocking knitters suffered real tragedies as a result of the introduction of the new stocking frames, one of the earliest inventions of the Industrial Revolution. He is perhaps best known as the author of the classic, Economics in One Lesson (1946). This looks at first glance like a clear loss of employment. Arkwright invented his cotton-spinning machinery in 1760. This happened in the war when slaughter houses were required by the Office of Price Administration to slaughter and process meat for less than the cost to them of cattle on the hoof and the labor of slaughter and processing. What these relations are we shall later consider. These new firms are inefficient compared with those they displace; they turn out inferior and dishonest goods at much higher production costs than the older concerns would have required for continuing to turn out their former goods. To blame “excessive saving” for the business decline would be like blaming a fall in the price of apples not on a bumper crop but on the people who refuse to pay more for apples. And the product is then produced and sold at a permanently lower price. The family too has the constant problem of choosing among alternative applications of labor, and, if it is lucky enough to have acquired guns, fishing tackle, a boat, axes, saws and so on, of choosing among alternative applications of labor and capital. People do not want to pay more for milk, butter, shoes, furniture, rent, theater tickets or diamonds. I shall not weary the reader with a recital of the fantastic figures put forward by this group or with corrections to show what the real facts were. It is unfortunate for clarity of economic thinking that the price of labor’s services should have received an entirely different name from other prices. 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