ABSTRACT
IT is not always easy to distinguish clearly between economic (which includes resources) and political (which includes power) dimensions of social phenomena—thus, for example, the hybrid speciality, political economy. The reader should also see the following chapter on Spencer’s political thought, as well as those entries in Chapter 13 which center on his sociological analysis of economic institutions. The present chapter mostly includes discussions of the economic doctrines of Spencer’s two editions of Social Statics (items 68 and 69) and “Justice” (part 4 of The Principles of Ethics [item 20], but first issued as a separate book [item 44]); his trenchant essays condemning socialism, including “The Coming Slavery” (item 209) and “From Freedom to Bondage” (item 246); and his various pronouncements on the “Land Question” controversy.
