Forgotten Gems

Over the course of time some particularly noteworthy essays, chapters or sections of books are forgotten. This section is an attempt to revive these “forgotten gems”.

Robert Molesworth, “The Principles of a Real Whig” (1705)

Source

Robert Molesworth, An Account of Denmark, With Francogallia and Some Considerations for the Promoting of Agriculture and Employing the Poor, Edited and with an Introduction by Justin Champion (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,…

William Graham Sumner, “Laissez-Faire” (c. 1886)

William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays (1918)
Source

William Graham Sumner, On Liberty, Society, and Politics: The Essential Writings of William Graham Sumner, ed. Robert C. Bannister…

William Graham Sumner, “The Bequests of the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth” (c. 1900)

William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays (1918)
Source

First published posthumously in the Yale Review 22 (1933), 732-754. Reprinted in William Graham Sumner, On Liberty, Society, and Politics:…

William Graham Sumner, “Liberté des échanges” (Free Trade) (1899–92)

William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays (1918)
Source

“Liberté des Échanges” in Nouveau Dictionnaire d’Économie Politique, (Paris: Guillaumin et Cie., 1892), vol. 2, pp. 138–166.

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