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Earth-Hunger and Other Essays

Earth-Hunger and Other Essays by William Graham Sumner is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.

Author
William Graham Sumner
First published
1913
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
390
Publisher
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913; Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

Essays by William Graham Sumner edited by Albert Galloway Keller and published by Yale in 1913. It includes fifteen essays on liberty from 1887 to 1889 and important papers on what he called plutocracy, meaning the use of political influence to enrich favored business interests, and the title essay on how nations' land hunger leads to war.

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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 8 of Sumner's works.

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52 chapters · 106,238 words · free to read here

  1. PREFACE
  2. PREFATORY NOTE
  3. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER
  4. THE TEACHER’S UNCONSCIOUS SUCCESS
  5. THE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE OF MIND1
  6. EARTH HUNGER OR THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAND GRABBING [1896]
  7. PURPOSES AND CONSEQUENCES1
  8. RIGHTS1
  9. EQUALITY1
  10. THE FIRST STEPS TOWARD A MILLENNIUM [1888]
  11. WHAT IS CIVIL LIBERTY? [1889]
  12. The History of the Dogma of Natural Liberty
  13. Liberty in History and Institutions
  14. IS LIBERTY A LOST BLESSING? [1887]
  15. Is It the Savage?
  16. Who Is Free? Is It the Civilized Man?
  17. Who Is Free? Is It the Millionaire?
  18. Who Is Free? Is it the Tramp?
  19. LIBERTY AND RESPONSIBILITY
  20. Liberty and Law
  21. Liberty and Discipline
  22. Liberty and Property
  23. Liberty and Opportunity
  24. Liberty and Labor
  25. Does Labor Brutalize?
  26. Liberty and Machinery
  27. The Disappointment of Liberty
  28. SOME POINTS IN THE NEW SOCIAL CREED
  29. AN EXAMINATION OF A NOBLE SENTIMENT
  30. THE BANQUET OF LIFE
  31. SOME NATURAL RIGHTS
  32. THE ABOLITION OF POVERTY
  33. THE BOON OF NATURE
  34. LAND MONOPOLY
  35. A GROUP OF NATURAL MONOPOLIES
  36. ANOTHER CHAPTER ON MONOPOLY
  37. THE FAMILY MONOPOLY
  38. THE FAMILY AND PROPERTY
  39. THE STATE AND MONOPOLY
  40. DEMOCRACY AND PLUTOCRACY
  41. DEFINITIONS OF DEMOCRACY AND PLUTOCRACY
  42. THE CONFLICT OF PLUTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY
  43. DEMOCRACY AND MODERN PROBLEMS
  44. SEPARATION OF STATE AND MARKET
  45. SOCIAL WAR IN DEMOCRACY
  46. ECONOMICS AND POLITICS [1905]
  47. THE POWER AND BENEFICENCE OF CAPITAL [1899]
  48. SOCIOLOGICAL FALLACIES [1884]
  49. WHAT OUR BOYS ARE READING [1880]
  50. About Liberty Fund
  51. The Online Library of Liberty
  52. Copyright Information
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William Graham Sumner 1840–1910

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. Read more about William Graham Sumner.

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