In this 1969 work, Henry Hazlitt explains why politicians who promise salvation through government are dangerous. Among the essays: Instant Utopia | Salvation Through Government Spending | "We Owe It to Ourselves" | Consequences of Dollar Debasement | The High Cost of Wage Hikes | Price Controls | More on Price Controls | Who Protects the Consumer? | Famines Are Government-Made | Runaway Relief and Social Insecurity | Income Without Work | Fallacies of the Negative Income Tax | Can We Guarantee Jobs? | Soaking the Rich | Soaking the Corporations | Government Planning vs. Economic Growth | Government as Prosperity-Maker | Uruguay: Welfare State Gone Wild | Inflation Is Worldwide | The Case for the Gold Standard | The Fallacy of Foreign Aid | Government Unlimited | From Spencer's 1884 to Orwell's 1984 | The Task Confronting Libertarians | What We Can Do About It
