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December 1984

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How the Rich Get Richer in Texas

Texans talk a good line on free enterprise, but they're falling all over themselves to subsidize everything from picante sauce to posh hotels.

Michael Berryhill

Features

Saving the Poor from Welfare

A noted sociologist shows that there is a way to win the failed War on Poverty-scrap the entire federal welfare system. An excerpt from Losing Ground.

Charles Murray

Interview

Interview with Henry Hazlitt

The author of Economics in One Lesson looks back on an illustrious career as a writer and editor

Marty Zupan

Books

Standing Fast against Planning and Poverty

Thomas Sowell

Jacobs' Ladder to Prosperity

Thomas Bray

Sharpe Barbs at the State

Eleven novels by Tom Sharpe

Robert Blumen

The Not-So-Great Society

Glenn Loury

Learning to Live with the Bomb

John McCarthy

The Road to Freedom: F.A. Hayek's Intellectual Journey

Jeremy Shearmur

Editorials

Giving Thanks

Robert Poole

Columns

Notes

Reason Staff

Viewpoint: The Recovery They Love to Hate

James Edwards

Taxes: Low-Tax Recipes

Timothy Condon

Spotlight: Pulling No Punches

Patrick Cox

Space

Life & Liberty: Space for Freedom

Poul Anderson

Citings

Trends

Robert Poole, Paul Gordon, and Eric Marti

Letters

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

57 YEARS OF REASON

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