Mises Daily
Author:
John Chamberlain
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“The free-swinging enterpriser, using capitalist savings, is the true hero of the war on poverty.” [The Freeman , 1973] 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