"The Conquest of Poverty"
by Henry Hazlitt

Originally published by Arlington House, 1973 (New Rochelle, NY). Reprinted by University Press of America, 1986 (Lanham, MD) and by The Foundation for Economic Education (Irvington, NY).

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1. THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY

2. POVERTY AND POPULATION

3. DEFINING POVERTY

4. THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME

5. THE STORY OF NEGRO GAINS

6. POOR RELIEF IN ANCIENT ROME

7. THE POOR LAWS OF ENGLAND

8. THE BALLOONING WELFARE STATE

9. WELFARISM GONE WILD

10. THE FALLACY OF "PROVIDING JOBS"

11. SHOULD WE DIVIDE THE WEALTH?

12. ON APPEASING ENVY

13. HOW UNIONS REDUCE REAL WAGES

14. FALSE REMEDIES FOR POVERTY

15. WHY SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK

16. FOREIGN INVESTMENT VS. "AID"

17. WHY SOME ARE POORER

18. THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT

19. PRIVATE PROPERTY, PUBLIC PURPOSE

20. THE CURE FOR POVERTY

I wish to express my gratitude to the Principles of Freedom Committee, and also to the Institute for Humane Studies of Menlo Park, California, for their help and encouragement to me in writing this book.

The Committee has promoted a series of books on economic issues that seek to clarify the workings of the free market and the consequences of governmental intervention. I am proud to find my book in the company of the five previous volumes in the Principles of Freedom Series: Great Myths of Economics (1968), by Don Paarlberg, The Strange World of Ivan Ivanov (1969), by G. Warren Nutter, Freedom in Jeopardy: The Tyranny of Idealism (1969), by John V. Van Sickle, The Genius of the West (1971), by Louis Rougier, and The Regulated Consumer (1971), by Mary Bennett Peterson.

The substance of Chapter 13, "How Unions Reduce Real Wages," was delivered as a talk before the international Mont Pelerin Society at Munich, West Germany, in 1970.

Wilton, Connecticut
August, 1972

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