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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A Plea for liberty : an argument against socialism and socialistic legislation : consisting of an introduction by Herbert Spencer and essays by various writers
Liberty Fund, c1981
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"This Liberty Fund reprint is based on the edition published in 1891 in New York by D. Appleton & Company"--T.p. verso
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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