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First published 1919

The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

by William Graham Sumner

Yale University Press, 1919559 pagesUpdated December 9, 2008

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Author
William Graham Sumner
First published
1919
Format
PDF, EPUB, and Kindle
Pages
559
Publisher
Yale University Press
License
Believed to be in the public domain by publication date; not independently confirmed.

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William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was an American classical liberal social scientist and one of the founding fathers of American sociology. He taught at Yale University, where he wrote his most influential works. This archive holds 3 of Sumner's works.

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28 chapters · 152,506 words · free to read here

  1. Preface
  2. Protectionism
  3. Tariff Reform
  4. What is Free Trade?
  5. Protectionism Twenty Years After
  6. Prosperity Strangled by Gold
  7. Cause and Cure of Hard Times
  8. The Free-Coinage Scheme Is Impracticable at Every Point
  9. The Delusions of Debtors
  10. The Crime of 1873
  11. A Concurrent Circulation of Gold and Silver
  12. The Influence of Commercial Crises on Opinions About Economic Doctrines
  13. The Philosophy of Strikes
  14. Strikes and the Industrial Organization
  15. Trusts and Trades-Unions
  16. An Old "Trust"
  17. Shall Americans Own Ships?
  18. Politics in America
  19. The Adminstration of Andrew Jackson
  20. The Commercial Crisis of 1837
  21. The Science of Sociology
  22. Integrity in Education
  23. Discipline
  24. The Cooperative Commonwealth
  25. The Forgotten Man
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index
  28. About this edition
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William Graham Sumner 1840–1910

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