A Plea for liberty : an argument against socialism and socialistic legislation : consisting of an introduction by Herbert Spencer and essays by various writers

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    • Mackay, Thomas
    • Spencer, Herbert

Bibliographic Information

A Plea for liberty : an argument against socialism and socialistic legislation : consisting of an introduction by Herbert Spencer and essays by various writers

edited by Thomas Mackay

Liberty Classics, c1981

  • pbk.

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Note

Originally published: New York : D. Appleton, 1891. With a new foreword by Jeffrey Paul and a new index

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • The impracticability of socialism / by Edward Stanley Robertson
  • The limits of liberty / by Wordsworth Donisthorpe
  • Liberty for labour / by George Howell
  • State socialism in the Antipodes / by Charles Fairfield
  • The discontent of the working-classes / by Edmund Vincent
  • Investment / by Thomas Mackay
  • Free education / by B.H. Alford
  • The housing of the working-classes and of the poor / by Arthur Raffalovich
  • The evils of state trading as illustrated by the Post Office / by Frederick Millar
  • Free libraries / by M.D. O'Brien
  • The state and electrical distribution / by F.W. Beauchamp Gordon
  • The true line of deliverance / by Auberon Herbert

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This collection of essays was originally published in 1891, at a time when the modern welfare state was first taking shape. The theoretical and empirical contributions are fine examples of the classical liberal tradition in British thought.

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