[Newsweek column from March 21, 1949, and reprinted in Business Tides: The Newsweek Era of Henry Hazlitt .] Tablets, said to be 200 years older than the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, have just been translated which show that the ancient kingdom of Eshnunna had wage control and price control. The news ought not to have come as a surprise. For the
[ Chapter One of The Conquest of Poverty . ] The history of poverty is almost the history of mankind. The ancient writers have left us few specific accounts of it. They took it for granted. Poverty was the normal lot.The ancient world of Greece and Rome, as modern historians reconstruct it, was a world where houses had no chimneys, and rooms,
[Artículo de Newsweek del 21 de marzo de 1949 y reimpreso en Business Tides: The Newsweek Era of Henry Hazlitt ] Se acaban de traducir tablillas, que se dice que son 200 años más antiguas que el código babilonio de Hammurabi, que demuestran que el antiguo reino de Eshnunna tenía control de salarios y control de precios. La noticia no tendría que
[ Capítulo Uno de The Conquest of Poverty .] La historia de la pobreza es casi la historia de la humanidad. Los antiguos escritores nos han dejado pocos relatos específicos al respecto. Lo dieron por sentado. La pobreza era lo normal. El mundo antiguo de Grecia y Roma, tal como lo reconstruyen los historiadores modernos, era un mundo en el que las
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