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Forgotten Man and Other Essays

Name: Forgotten Man and Other Essays
Author: William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner

Read by Chad Jackson, Tatiana Chichilla, madhushree, Immanuel Satya, arbycoors, Wayne Cooke, mleigh, Allan R. Tate, Steve Knox, Kerry Adams, Dave Capper, Andrew Huguelet, Leslie Frank and Kazbek · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Preface (8:01)
Protectionism the -Ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth (1885)Preface (3:43)
Protectionism the -Ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth (1885) Chapter 1 (24:12)
Protectionism the -Ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth (1885) Chapter 2 Part 1 (39:21)
Protectionism the -Ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth (1885) Chapter 2 Part 2 (22:57)
Chapter 3 Part 1 Protectionism the -Ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth (1885) (33:07)
Chapter 3 Part 2 Protectionism the -Ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth (1885) (29:10)
Protectionism the -Ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth (1885) Chapter 4 Part 1 (17:58)
Protectionism the -Ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth (1885) Chapter 4 Part 2 (20:11)
Protectionism the -Ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth (1885) Chapter 5 (10:06)
Tariff Reform (1888) (13:24)
What is Free Trade (1886) (13:37)
Protectionism Twenty Years After (1906) (17:35)
Prosperity Strangled by Gold (1896) (11:59)
Cause and Cure of Hard Times (1896) (14:37)
The Free-Coinage Scheme is Impracticable at every Point (1896) (16:18)
The Delusion of the Debtors (1896) (15:43)
The Crime of 1873 (1896) (12:25)
A Concurrent Circulation of Gold and Silver (1878) Part 1 (21:39)
A Concurrent Circulation of Gold and Silver (1878) Part 2 (23:29)
The Influence of Commercial Crises on Opinions about Economic Doctrines (1879) Part 1 (21:55)
The Influence of Commercial Crises on Opinions about Economic Doctrines (1879) Part 2 (20:01)
The Philosophy of Strikes (1883) (21:13)
Strikes and the Industrial Organization (1887) (6:40)
Trusts and Trades-unions (1888) (10:00)
An Old “Trust” (1889) (7:10)
Shall Americans Own Ships? (1881) (20:47)
Politics in America, 1776–1876 (1876) Part 1 (30:59)
Politics in America, 1776–1876 (1876) Part 2 (33:38)
Politics in America, 1776–1876 (1876) Part 3 (32:15)
Politics in America, 1776–1876 (1876) Part 4 (35:11)
The Administration of Andrew Jackson (1880) Part 1 (32:07)
The Administration of Andrew Jackson (1880) Part 2 (28:19)
The Commercial Crisis of 1837 (1877 or 1878) Part 1 (25:47)
The Commercial Crisis of 1837 (1877 or 1878) Part 2 (27:25)
The Science of Sociology (1882) (12:52)
Integrity in Education (25:18)
Discipline (37:55)
The Coöperative Commonwealth Part 1 (14:33)
The Coöperative Commonwealth Part 2 (18:47)
The Forgotten Man (1883) Part 1 (24:44)
The Forgotten Man (1883) Part 2 (25:46)
The Forgotten Man (1883) Part 3 (26:16)