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Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
William Graham Sumner
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
Sumner was one of the founding fathers of American sociology who explored the relationship between the individual and the state from an individualist and free market perspective. This collection of essays is a good example of his approach to the subject.
Open the reader →Gustave de Molinari
The Society of Tomorrow: A Forecast of its Political and Economic Organization
In this vision of a future society, the Belgian laissez-faire economist Molinari suggests how many, if not most, public goods could be provided by the free market or by radically decentralized local governments.
Open the reader →William Stanley Jevons
Methods of Social Reform and Other Papers
A collection of Jevon’s papers and addresses on topics as diverse as public libraries and museums, trade societies and partnerships, married women in factories, cruelty to animals, and the post office and railways.
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