Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 450 S
,
Ill
Edition:
Online-Ausgabe Kiel ZBW 2017 1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Hamburg
Parallel Title:
Elektronische Reproduktion von Sumner, William Graham, 1840 - 1910 The challenge of facts and other essays
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Social sciences
Description / Table of Contents:
Sketch of William Graham Sumner.--The challenge of facts.--Reply to a socialist.--What makes the rich richer and the poor poorer?--The concentration of wealth: its economic justification.--Industrial war.--A parable.--The demand for men.--The significance of the demand for men.--What the "social question" is.--What emancipates.--Power and progress.--Consequences of increased social power.--What is the "proletariat"?--Who win by progress?--Federal legislation on railroads.--Legislation by clamor.--The shifting of responsibility.--The state as an "ethical person."--The new social issue.--Speculative legislation.--Republican government.--Democracy and responsible government.--Advancing social and political organization in the United States.
URN:
urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-76513
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