One would get the impression, reading most of the discussions in today’s American newspapers and magazines, that no one had ever thought of doing anything for the poor until Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930’s, or even until President Johnson’s “war on poverty” in the 1960’s. Yet private charity is as old as mankind; and the history of
[Newsweek column from May 26, 1952, and reprinted in Business Tides: The Newsweek Era of Henry Hazlitt.] At his press conference on May 8, Mr. Truman, asked whether the chief danger was inflation or deflation, replied that the country had to guard against both: and that was why it was necessary to have control powers — to prevent either one. There
[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
Uno tendría la impresión, leyendo la mayoría de las discusiones en los periódicos y revistas estadounidenses de hoy, que nadie había pensado en hacer nada por los pobres hasta el New Deal de Franklin Roosevelt en la década de 1930, o incluso hasta la «guerra contra la pobreza» del presidente Johnson en Estados Unidos en los años sesenta. Sin
[Columna Newsweek del 26 de mayo de 1952, y reimpreso en Business Tides: The Newsweek Era de Henry Hazlitt.] En su conferencia de prensa del 8 de mayo, el Sr. Truman, preguntó si el principal peligro era la inflación o la deflación, le respondió que el país tenía que protegerse de ambos: y era por eso que era necesario tener poderes de control
[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
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