The wisdom of Henry Hazlitt

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Articles, addresses, and essays, most originally published in The freeman. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Hans F. Sennholz -- Tributes. A man for many seasons / Bettina Bien Greaves -- A true polymath / Edmund A. Opitz -- Indefatigable leader / Ludwig von Mises. -- Hazlitt responses. Reflections at 70 -- The art of thinking. -- Of the market order. The ABC of a market economy -- Private ownership: a must -- Rights -- The case for the minimal state -- The sphere of government: Nineteenth-century theories -- How should prices be determined? -- Market prices vs. Communist commands -- The distribution of income. -- The road not taken. The road not taken -- The torrent of laws -- From Spencer's 1884 to Orwell's 1984 -- "Planning" vs the free market -- Private property, public purpose -- Keynesianism in a nutshell. -- Of poverty and welfare. Defining poverty -- Why some are poorer -- Should we divide the wealth? -- False remedies for poverty -- Income without work -- On appeasing envy -- The cure for poverty. The story of Negro gains -- The ballooning welfare state -- Welfarism gone wild -- Uruguay: welfare state gone wild -- Foreign investment vs. foreign aid. -- Of truth and vigilance. Why anticapitalism grows -- Can we keep free enterprise? -- The task confronting Libertarians -- The literature of freedom.