Author:William Graham Sumner

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William Graham Sumner (1840–1910)

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American academic at the Yale University; wrote books and essays on a variety of topics and, as a classical liberal, argued against interventionism in foreign affairs and financial markets

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. G. S."

William Graham Sumner

Works

• A history of American currency (1874) (external scan)
• Bimetallism (1879) (external scan)
• Andrew Jackson (1882) (external scan)
• What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)
• Lectures on the history of protection in the United States (1883) (external scan)
• Problems in political economy (1884) (external scan)
• Protectionism, the -ism which teaches that waste makes wealth (1885) (external scan)
• Alexander Hamilton (1890) (external scan)
• The financier and the finances of the American revolution (1891) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Robert Morris (1892) (external scan)
• A History of Banking in the United States (1896) (transcription project)
• The predominant issue … (1901) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• War and Other Essays (1911)
• Earth-Hunger and Other Essays (1913)
• The Challenge of Facts and Other Essays (1914)
• The Forgotten Man and Other Essays (1918)
• Folkways (1907) (external scan)

Contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica

• "Jackson, Andrew," in Encyclopædia Britannica (Ninth Edition) (1881)
• "Jackson, Andrew," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• “Suggestions on Social Subjects,” in Popular Science Monthly, 24 (December 1883)
• “What Makes the Rich Richer and the Poor Poorer,” in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (January 1887)
• “What Is Civil Liberty?,” in Popular Science Monthly, 35 (July 1889)
• “The Proposed Dual Organization of Mankind,” in Popular Science Monthly, 49 (August 1896)

Works about Sumner

• "Sumner, William Graham," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sumner, William Graham," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)