Poor Policy: How Government Harms the Poor

This is a readable, biblically based economic analysis of how and why governmental anti-poverty programs and policies have often produced the opposite of what they intended. The author shows the illogic of most of the usual poverty remedies, including government-mandated redistribution, minimum-wage laws, governmental job training programs, rent control or other housing policies, and governmental foreign aid. He sharply but accurately describes how government has mandated a pathetic level of education, and maps out the road to recovery.

Have used Eric's ideas in classes and he has helped me greatly in developing and honing my own ideas about public policy.

This book challenges all perspectives on government in the U.S. Very thought provoking and at times upsetting. Makes the reader want to become involved in eradicated the unfairness, and inefficiencies of today's society.