“The riddle is not only unsolved when Professor Leacock tackles it, but it remains so when he has finished with it. The author has merely re-stated the problem in a lucid and concise manner and fused it with a sort of primer of economics, and comes out in the end with a middle-of-the-road vagueness as his major contribution to the subject.” L. B.
− + Freeman 2:430 Ja 12 ’21 100w Ind 103:319 S 11 ’20 20w
Reviewed by C. E. Ayres
+ − J Pol Econ 28:439 My ’20 550w
“Stephen Leacock is far from happy in his study of ‘The unsolved riddle of social justice.’ He reveals himself as a clever man, of course, but not as a serious economic thinker. He, surely, cannot be so ignorant as this book would lead one to infer.”
− + Nation 110:772 Je 5 ’20 550w
“As a book for the general reader this little treatise can scarcely be too much commended. It is eminently humane in spirit, sensible, serious without being ‘dead serious,’ and thorough on the essential points. The author seems to know how average, educated people think and feel about the present state of society, and to have an unusually good idea of how to write for persons who do not know much about political economy.”
+ No Am 211:430 Mr ’20 750w
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott
Outlook 125:124 My 19 ’20 750w