What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
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William Graham Sumner asks how far one social class can claim support from another, and what duties government owes its citizens. His discussion treats the state as the people acting through public servants, with funds supplied by labor and saving. The chapters address poverty, wealth, personal responsibility and the figure he calls the Forgotten Man. The setting for these arguments is the social and economic life of the United States.
The treatment of wages adds detail to his defense of individual responsibility. Sumner considers contracts, business risks and the unequal access employers and employees have to useful information. He also argues that workers need association to protect their interests in bargaining. Readers interested in economic thought can examine how he connects limited government with practical questions about work, cooperation and fairness, while assessing his assumptions about who bears the cost of reform.
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- William Graham Sumner
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