# The Problem with Socialism - Hardcover

by **Thomas J. Dilorenzo** (Author)

**"DiLorenzo's book is a pleasure to read and should be put in the hands of every young person in this country - and elsewhere " _\--FORMER CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL_**

**"It is a worthwhile investment for parents with college-age children to buy two copies of _The Problem with Socialism_ -one for their children and one for themselves."** **_\--WALTER E. WILLIAMS, John M Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, George Mason University and nationally syndicated columnist_**

**"Ever wonder what one book you should give a young person to make sure he doesn't fall for leftist propoganda? You're looking at it."** **_\--_THOMAS E. WOODS, JR., host of The Tom Woods Show, author of the New York Times bestseller _The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History_**

What's the Problem with Socialism?

Let's start with...**_everything._**

So says bestselling author and professor of economics Thomas J. DiLorenzo, who sets the record straight in this concise and lively primer on an economic theory that's gaining popularity--with help from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders--despite its universal failure as an economic model and its truly horrific record on human rights.

In sixteen eye-opening chapters, DiLorenzo reveals how socialism inevitably makes inequality worse, why socialism was behind the worst government-sponsored mass murders in history, the myth of "successful" Scandinavian socialism; how socialism is worse--far worse--for the environment than capitalism, and more.

As DiLorenzo shows, and history proves, socialism is the answer only if you want **increasing unemployment and poverty**, **stifling bureaucracy** if not outright political tyranny, **catastrophic environmental pollution**, **rotten schools**, and so many social ills that it takes a book like this to cover just the big ones.

Provocative, timely, essential reading, Thomas J. DiLorenzo's **_The Problem with Socialism_** is an instant classic comparable to Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson.'

In the words of Thomas E. Woods - "Dance on socialism's grave by reading this book."

### Author Biography

**Dr. Thomas J. DiLorenzo** is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and a retired economics professor, having taught university economics for forty-one years. He is the author or co-author of seventeen books, including _The Real Lincoln_, _How Capitalism Saved America_, _Hamilton's Curse_, and _The Problem with Socialism._

**Number of Pages:** 256

**Dimensions:** 1 x 7 x 4.3 IN

**Publication Date:** July 18, 2016

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