Book Review: “Time Will Run Back” By Henry Hazlit
While reading the article “Would Ayn Rand be Welcomed at a Tea Party?” I came across Henry Hazlit’s 1951 novel The Great Idea. It has been republished as “Time Will Run Back.” I downloaded the book to my Kindle for $4.99!
Few people in the 1950s imagined that communism would fall of its own dead weight, but Hazlitt understood what others did not. He also saw that a mixed system would fail of its own internal contradictions. This book thus teaches economics in a special way that is accessible to people of all ages, but to teens in particular because the story is fictional. And yet it is not fictional: what Hazlitt forecasts in this book — the unraveling of a system — actually did take place. So his novel might be seen as a foreshadowing of events in Russia, China, and elsewhere.
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