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The American sociologist William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) argued that the accumulation of capital by peaceful productive activity required the cooperation of millions of people across the globe and resulted in mankind rising above the level of “the brute”: The modern industrial system is a great …
Honoré Daumier, "The Army Hierarchy" (1850s) [See higher resolution image ] What are Ngrams? According to the Wikipedia article on The Google Ngram Viewer : The Google Ngram Viewer or Google Books Ngram Viewer is an online search engine that charts frequencies of any set of …
Vol. 3 of a 6 vol. collection of the works of the 19th century French political economist Frédéric Bastiat. This volume contains the complete collection of Economic Sophisms, a third of which have never been translated before; as well as a new translation of What is Seen and What is Not Seen. …
History has not been kind to the legacy of William Graham Sumner. In his time (1840-1910), Sumner was one of the most prestigious and widely read libertarian intellectuals in the United States. Beyond his more technical academic work Sumner also wrote passionately and voluminously in defense of …