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Another of his enduring works is The Failure of the New Economics ( 1959 ), a detailed, chapter-by-chapter critique of John Maynard Keynes's highly influential General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, about which he paraphrased a quote attributed to Samuel Johnson, that he was " unable to find in it a single doctrine that is both true and original.

What is original in the book is not true ; and what is true is not original.

" Hazlitt also published three books on the subject of inflation, including From Bretton Woods to World Inflation ( 1984 ), and two influential works on poverty, Man vs.

The Welfare State ( 1969 ), and The Conquest of Poverty ( 1973 ), thought by some to have anticipated the later work of Charles Murray in Losing Ground.