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Hunting down social Darwinism : will this canard go extinct? / Stuart K. Hayahsi.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hayahsi, Stuart K., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Social Darwinism.
Human evolution.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (421 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Hunting Down Social Darwinism is the third and final installment in the trilogy, The Nature of Liberty.The trilogy gives a secular, ethical defense of laissez-faire capitalism, inspired by Ayn Rand's ideas.
Contents:
Nineteenth-century capitalists want the poor to die?
The conflation of laissez faire with regulation-imposed eugenics
The equivocation that infects intellectuals
The camouflaging of eugenicists as eugenicism's opponents
Progressivism : the genesis of eugenics
Is Naziism the final stage of capitalism?
Socialism and fascism : close relatives
The führer versus free enterprise
They loved blood and soil but not the mind
Extinction of the social Darwinism Canard
The ethologists' unpaid debts to Spencer and Sumner
Overthrowing the anarchists
Natural liberty requires adherence to truth.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-7391-8671-X
OCLC:
903900678

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