Man vs. The Welfare State

Preface

THIS BOOK GREW OUT OF A PAMPHLET THAT APPEARED IN August, 1968, called Life and Death of the Welfare State. The greater part of the material in it is new, but several chapters have appeared in advance of this publication in The Freeman (a monthly published by the Foundation for Economic Education at Irvington-on-Hudson, New York), parts of several chapters appeared in my syndicated newspaper column for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and Chapter 16 was published as a pamphlet in Europe in English, French, and German editions by INFRA (The International Freedom Academy). I am grateful to the publishers concerned for permission to republish this material here.

HENRY HAZLITT

Wilton, Conn.

August, 1969

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