Economics 101
Works by Hunter Lewis
Free markets, sound money, and the dangers of government intervention are the threads running through all three of these accessible, thought-provoking works on economics. Hunter Lewis, co-founder and former CEO of global investment firm Cambridge Associates, brings decades of real-world expertise to his goal of making complex economic ideas understandable to any reader.
Economics in Three Lessons & One Hundred Economic Laws is an ideal introduction to the subject. Building on Henry Hazlitt's classic free-market primer, it shows how free prices create prosperity, how government manipulation breeds crony capitalism, and how one hundred core economic laws can guide sound decision-making.
Where Keynes Went Wrong critiques the doctrine driving government policy for decades. It methodically dismantles Keynes's General Theory to reveal how deficit spending, artificially low interest rates, and money printing lead not to recovery, but to inflation, bubbles, and busts.
Are the Rich Necessary? tackles the most fundamental questions in economics: wealth inequality, the profit motive, greed, and the role of government. It presents both sides of each argument in a lively point-counterpoint style.
Together, these three books form a compelling and accessible economics education.
Economics in Three Lessons & One Hundred Economic Laws
Author: Hunter Lewis
ISBN: 978-1-60419-114-1
eISBN: 978-1-60419-115-8
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Where Keynes Went Wrong
And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts
Author: Hunter Lewis
ISBN: 978-1-60419-044-1
eISBN: 978-1-60419-052-6
Among Top Seven Books Recommended Year End by Barron’s Economics Editor
Among Top Five Finance and Economics Books 2009 Recommended by 800-CEO-Read
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Are the Rich Necessary?
Great Economic Arguments and How They Reflect Our Personal Values
Author: Hunter Lewis
ISBN: 978-1-60419-016-8
eISBN: 978-1-60419-029-8
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About the Author
Hunter Lewis
Hunter Lewis is co-founder and former CEO of global investment firm Cambridge Associates, LLC and author of 12 books on economics and moral philosophy. He has contributed to the New York Times, the Times of London, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic Monthly, as well as numerous websites such as Forbes.com, RealClearMarkets.com, and many others. He has served on boards and committees of fifteen leading not-for-profit organizations, including environmental, teaching, research, and cultural organizations, as well as the World Bank.
Praise for Economics In Three Lessons
“5 out of 5 stars: Nice easy introduction to economic thinking.
Nice easy introduction to economic thinking, inspired by Henry Hazlitt’s magnificent Economics in One Lesson. While Hazlitt’s examples are dated, Lewis uses a modern context that gets his point across very effectively. Every high school student should be required to read this, or something like it.”
Laurence Siegel | Amazon Review (November 13, 2017)
“Former global investment firm CEO Hunter Lewis tackles contemporary economics in his two-part book. It distills the topic into three understandable lessons, followed by one hundred “economic laws” that the author hopes can be used “to guide our actions and choices in an uncertain world. . . . This material is an education unto itself . . . and . . . deftly illuminates a subject that is too often maligned and misunderstood.”
Barry Silverstein | ForeWord Reviews (September/October 2017)
“An excellent short introduction to the subject. Well worth reading. A nice expansion and update of Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. The author provides many simple, easy to understand examples that highlight the points he is making. It would make a great supplement to today's economics textbooks.”
Robert W. McGee | Amazon Review (October 1, 2017)
Praise for Where Keynes Went Wrong
“…[An] impassioned…and…much needed book. In plain prose,…Hunter Lewis…begins by patiently walking us through precisely what Keynes said…then reveals why Keynes’s work is ‘remarkably unsupported by evidence or logic.’ Lewis does much more besides, showing how Keynesianism has lived in the minds and hearts of politicians, with disastrous results.”
Gene Epstein | Barron’s Magazine (12/14/2009)
“Lewis has exposed with unmatched clarity the lineaments of Keynes’s system and enabled us to see exactly its disabling defects. Keynes defied common sense, unable to sustain the brilliant paradoxes that his fertile intellect constantly devised. Lewis’s book is an ideal guide to Keynes’s dangerous and destructive economics. . .”
David Gordon | LewRockwell.com (4/18/2013)
“Hunter Lewis has written a splendid book called Where Keynes Went Wrong. The dissection of the English economist who died in 1946 is especially timely, given that the past two administrations and the current one are identical in believing wholeheartedly in…key Keynesian dogma.”
Patrick McIlheran (The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
“Are the Rich Necessary? is both a highly provocative and a highly pleasurable read.”
Harry Hurt III | The New York Times
Praise for Are The Rich Necessary?
“Great reading for anyone interested in quickly expanding their knowledge of today’s political–economic issues.”
Publishers Weekly
“Hunter Lewis…does not get lost in lengthy academic analyses…. His approach to the topics is very direct, the pulp of the debates on all sides of a multifaceted problem is squeezed out, and opposing positions are made to stand on their own against each other…. Lewis is a master at getting the theories naked for the confrontation, without academic embellishments, with their pros and cons, and down to their essential and pragmatic characters.”
Carlo Martini | Metapsychology Online Reviews
