Up from Poverty: Reflections on the Ills of Public Assistance

DECEMBER 01, 2008 by MIKE VAN WINKLE, HANS SENNHOLZ

A look at how measures designed to “help the poor” in one way or another undermine individual incentives and responsibility. The collection includes articles and essays by Leonard E. Read, William Graham Sumner, Dean Russell, Clarence Carson, Lawrence Reed, W. M. Curtiss, Thomas DiLorenzo, among others.

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