February

1..:::iWWWWlIIIlIillmltiY??/£; ", William Henry Chamberlin con cludes that there is no reliable sub stitute for individual effort as a cure for poverty p. 3 '" And one of the greatest incentives toward individual effort is the institution of private property p. 10 '" There may be a good reason, be lieves Dr. W. A. Paton, why the entire United States might be proclaimed a disaster area. .p. 16 '" The Reverend Edmund Opitz spec ulates on the outcome if a rat were to catch a cat. ... . . ..p. 21 '" Dr. Carson here concludes last month's chapter on the development of the socialist ideology into a mythology in the United States p. 24 ", Concerning the importance of lov ing some persons and things more than others, see p. 38 '" Henry Hazlitt looks at the record of foreign aid and finds no facts to fit the theory of the intergovernmental handout p. 41 '" Leonard Read has a theory of his own as to what will happen when in dividuals take on problems beyond their competence p. 52 '" The subject of this month's re view by John Chamberlain is the economics of the tropics, based on Contribution and Reward by Mogens V. Hermann. . p. 60 Y' And reviewer Opitz adds a word of commendation for Introduction to Po litical Science by Oscar Ibere and the History of Political Philosophy edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey.

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