The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation, and Other Essays

The collection of essays examines the ascendancy of empirical science within contemporary culture and its practical and spiritual consequences, offers an evolutionary framing for economics while critiquing its static preconceptions and marginal-utility formulations, and scrutinizes institutions of business, capital, and leisure that shape industrial life. Additional pieces address the character of higher education, socialist theory and Marxist economics, the mechanics of industrial and pecuniary employments, and historical episodes in commercial organization. Interwoven are comparative reflections on cultural and racial ideas as applied to social theory, all presented in an analytical, reforming spirit.