It was 1883 and a little-known social science professor at Yale named William Graham Sumner, who specialized in free markets and laissez-faire economics, would soon become more widely known thanks to ...

A barrel-chested, wing-collared young Yale instructor glared sternly at his pupils and in a voice that rang like an anvil began to lecture to his first class. He was William Graham Sumner. “He broke ...

Founded in 1975, Population and Development Review seeks to advance knowledge of the interrelationships between population and socioeconomic development and provides a forum for discussion of related ...

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Historian Abbas Amanat and economist Andrew Metrick were appointed to endowed professorships. Amanat, named as the William Graham Sumner Professor of History, is a historian of the modern Middle East, ...

THE name of William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) is so comparatively little known in Great Britain, except perhaps as the author of “Folkways”, that it comes as something of a surprise to discover that ...