20 years ago in reason.

• Author: Hayward, Steven
• Position: Citings - Brief article - Book review

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"The War on Poverty is destined to continue for a long while, but thanks to [Charles] Murray and the growing recognition that social problems aren't engineering tasks to be tackled like moon landings, we can hope that perhaps it won't end up being a fruitless Hundred Years' War."

--Steven Hayward, review of Michael Harrington's The Other America

"Capitalism was doomed--not by its failures, as in Marxian analysis, but by its successes. For according to Schumpeter, capitalism alienated intellectuals, who were unhappy because they are not important players...