The title of this 1883 classic of laissez-faire economics and sociology is ironic: the social classes do not, the author concludes, owe each other anything. Demolishing the theory of group obligation and fully embracing the concepts of dog-eat-dog social Darwinism, Sumner rages against the notion that the educated and wealthy have any obligation to the poor and uneducated, decl...(展开全部)

This is a classic treatise on the importance of maintaining the rights of the individual in the face of expanding state control manipulated by organized pressure groups.

The title of this 1883 classic of laissez-faire economics and sociology is ironic: the social classes do not, the author concludes, owe each other anything. Demolishing the theory of group obligation and fully embracing the concepts of dog-eat-dog social Darwinism, Sumner rages against the notion that the educated and wealthy have any obligation to the poor and uneducated, decl...(展开全部)

This is a classic treatise on the importance of maintaining the rights of the individual in the face of expanding state control manipulated by organized pressure groups.