“As his discussion stands and so far as it has been carried on it is so fragmentary and one-sided as to appear somewhat crude and far fetched.” Virgil Jordan
− Dial 69:96 Jl ’20 1150w Int J Ethics 31:115 O ’20 130w
“In their present state the essays reveal a lack in the organization of his new ideas as well as a faulty perspective in the arrangement of his biological and psychological material. His purpose, however, is admirable, and has brought about an advance of the line he set upon, namely the study of human behavior, as such, where it assists in the understanding of economic conditions.” Florence Richardson
+ − J Pol Econ 28:622 Jl ’20 600w
“For the economist, the book is like one of those impressive events that make history. It marks the closing of a chapter.” H. A. Overstreet
+ Nation 111:455 O 20 ’20 950w
Reviewed by C: Merz
+ New Repub 22:424 My 26 ’20 1200w
“The book is a useful record of an industrious and brilliant investigator who seems also to have been an unusually inspiring teacher. It is not too much to say that no man who has anything worth writing about should be allowed to write so badly as Professor Parker seems to have done when left to himself.”
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