Sumner today
Subtitle: selected essays of William Graham Sumner, with comments by American leaders
By: edited by Maurice R. Davie.
Contributors: Davie, Maurice R. 1893-1964.
Publisher: Yale university press; H. Milford, Oxford university press
Published: 1940
Place of publication: New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Social sciences.
Table of contents: value: Foreword, by J.C. Peter.; value: Preface.; value: Sketch of William Graham Sumner, from the Popular science monthly, June, 1889.; value: Sumner: how the man appears to one who never knew him, by John Chamberlain.; value: How Sumner arrived at his conclusions, by A.G. Keller.; value: Essays, with comments: The forgotten man. A parable. The influence of commercial crises on opinions about economic doctrines. What makes the rich richer and the poor poorer? Strikes and the industrial organization. The challenge of facts. The family monopoly. The absurd effort to make the world over. Purposes and consequences. The scientific attitude of mind. What is free trade? Liberty and responsibility. Rights. Some points in the new social creed. Earth hunger or the philosophy of land grabbing. War.