Up from Poverty: Reflections on the Ills of Public Assistance

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A look at how measures designed to "help the poor" in one way or another undermine individual incentives and responsibility. The collection includes articles and essays by Leonard E. Read, William Graham Sumner, Dean Russell, Clarence Carson, Lawrence Reed, W. M. Curtiss, Thomas DiLorenzo, among others. About the Author Hans F. Sennholz Hans F. Sennholz (February 3, 1922 - June 23, 2007) (born in Brambauer, Germany) was an economist of the Austrian school of economics who studied under Ludwig von Mises. After serving in the Luftwaffe in World War II, he took degrees at the universities of Marburg and Cologne. He then moved to the United States to study for a Ph.D. at New York University. He was Ludwig von Mises's first PhD student in the United States. He taught economics at Grove City College, 1956-1992, having been hired as department chair upon arrival. After he retired, he became president of the Foundation for Economic Education, 1992-1997.