Henry George vs. Herbert Spencer

Aristotle and George Spencer-Brown

The paper deals with Aristotelian logic as the special case of more general epistemology and sociology of both science and common sense. The Aristotelian principles of identity, of noncontradiction, and of excluded middle are to be supplemented by the secondorder cybernetic, or "cybernethic" principles of paradox, of ambivalence, and of control. In this paper we collect some ideas on how to eva...

George Henry Temple

George Herbert Mead and social reform: his work and writings.

City size and the Henry George theorem under monopolistic competition

We analyze the equilibrium and the optimal resource allocations in a monocentric city under monopolistic competition. Unlike the constant elasticity of substitution (CES) case, where the equilibrium markups are independent of city size, we present a variable elasticity of substitution (VES) case where the equilibrium markups fall with city size. We then show that, due to excess entry triggered ...

Reevaluating progressive eugenics: Herbert Spencer Jennings and the 1924 immigration legislation.