How to Conquer Poverty
The message of Henry Hazlitt’s The Conquest of Poverty is that his subject could have been dealt with in the past tense if it weren’t for the pernicious doctrine that “the state knows best.”
Alas! the tendency to hand problems of income “distribution” over to politicians whose only real skill is the accumulation of votes has prevented the West from utilizing the great productive strength that is to be found in the principle of voluntary association. So the cure for poverty is still in the future.
Just how far are we from getting government off our backs? Mr. Hazlitt is not a total pessimist; he believes in the power of education. Mere verbal demonstration, however, is not an infallible schoolteacher; the collaboration of events is needed to make education effective.
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